Chapter 4 On the use of LLM-powered AI tools in this thesis

For this work, we employed cutting-edge LLM-based technologies to support the package development and assist in academic writing. These tools proved invaluable in analyzing the structure of legal texts, restructuring the initial code, identifying pertinent papers, and refining the English language for improved readability.

Nevertheless, the intellectual rigor and effort invested in the research and documentation remain undiminished. While these tools aided the process, the content is original, shaped by critical thinking and the researcher’s intentions.

Since the end of 2022, the widespread diffusion of generative AI tools has opened several discussion within academia and traditional dilemmas related to authorship and plagiarism have resurfaced, sooner than expected.

I strongly believe that these dilemmas could be solved by adopting the legal lenses of copyright legislation and specifically, in the definition of creative work. As already mentioned in chapter 2, a "work" encompasses any set of materials organized intentionally and originality doesn’t depend on innovation but merely requires some form of intellectual endeavor.

Under this light, the use of generative AI tools, when purposefully directed and organized, does not represent a threat to academia, rather an opportunity for increasing the allot of time available to the researcher for the profound reflection on the motivations, objectives, and scope of the research, and thus the quality of the intellectual output.

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