SOME of the world’s biggest academic journal publishers have banned or curbed their authors from using the advanced chatbot, ChatGPT. Because the bot uses information from the internet to produce highly readable answers to questions, the publishers are worried that inaccurate or plagiarised work could enter the pages of academic literature. Authors BRIAN LUCEY, Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin MICHAEL DOWLING, Professor of Finance, Dublin City University Several researchers have already listed the chatbot as a co-author on academic studies, and some publishers have moved to ban this practice. But the editor-in-chief of Science, one of…