ChatGPT, in full Chat Generative Pre-training Transformer, allows a user to ask it questions using conversational, or natural, language. The latest version GPT-4 via the chatbot product ChatGPT Plus was released in March 2023. When presented with a query, ChatGPT will automatically generate a response, which is based on thousands of internet sources, often without further input from the user.
ChatGPT’s is easy to use, and we believe that its user-friendliness could increase academic output. ChatGPT might also open the propagation of scientific and other knowledge since it can receive and produce copy in multiple languages, circumventing English-language requirements that can be a publishing barrier for speakers of other languages. As acknowledged by OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, it has also the capacity to cause potential harm by producing misleading or inaccurate content, thereby eliciting concerns around scholarly misinformation.
Among the limitations listed by OpenAI (https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt), are:
ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers.
ChatGPT is sensitive to tweaks to the input phrasing or attempting the same prompt multiple times.
The model is often excessively verbose and overuses certain phrases
It will sometimes respond to harmful instructions or exhibit biased behavior.
Given these accounts and its popular usage, the editors queried ChatGPT as follows:
“Can you develop a 400–600 word policy and guideline for the Journal of Perinatal Medicine to direct authors how to use ChatGPT and artificial intelligence.” In Figure 1 you can read the complete answer by ChatGPT.

ChatGPT question and answers.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- ChatGPT and artificial intelligence in the Journal of Perinatal Medicine
- Reviews
- A systematic review and critical evaluation of quality of clinical practice guidelines on fetal growth restriction
- An exploration of barriers to access to trial of labor and vaginal birth after cesarean in the United States: a scoping review
- Opinion Paper
- A call for public funding of invasive and non-invasive prenatal testing
- Original Articles – Obstetrics
- The AccuFlow sensor: a novel digital health tool to assess intrapartum blood loss at cesarean delivery
- Risk factors associated with third- and fourth-degree perineal lacerations in singleton vaginal deliveries: a comprehensive United States population analysis 2016–2020
- Changes in use of 17-OHPC after the PROLONG trial: a physician survey
- Retrospective comparison of monochorionic diamniotic twin pregnancies stratified by spontaneous or artificial conception
- Associations of cesarean sections with comorbidities within the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System
- The spatial expression of mTORC2-AKT-IP3R signal pathway in mitochondrial combination of endoplasmic reticulum of maternal fetal interface trophoblast in intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy
- Comprehensive analysis of macrosomia: exploring the association between first-trimester alanine aminotransferase and uric acid measurements in pregnant women
- Use, misuse, and overuse of antenatal corticosteroids. A retrospective cohort study
- Classification of normal and abnormal fetal heart ultrasound images and identification of ventricular septal defects based on deep learning
- Virtual touch IQ elastography in the evaluation of fetal liver and placenta in pregnancies with gestational diabetes mellitus
- Fetomaternal outcome of scarred uterine rupture compared with primary uterine rupture: a retrospective cohort study
- Original Articles – Fetus
- The assessment of fetal cardiac functions in pregnancies with autoimmune diseases: a prospective case-control study
- The relationship of maternal polymorphisms of genes related to meiosis and DNA damage repair with fetal chromosomal stability
- Original Articles – Neonates
- German obstetrician’s self-reported attitudes and handling in threatening preterm birth at the limits of viability
- Do parents get what they want during bad news delivery in NICU?
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- ChatGPT and artificial intelligence in the Journal of Perinatal Medicine
- Reviews
- A systematic review and critical evaluation of quality of clinical practice guidelines on fetal growth restriction
- An exploration of barriers to access to trial of labor and vaginal birth after cesarean in the United States: a scoping review
- Opinion Paper
- A call for public funding of invasive and non-invasive prenatal testing
- Original Articles – Obstetrics
- The AccuFlow sensor: a novel digital health tool to assess intrapartum blood loss at cesarean delivery
- Risk factors associated with third- and fourth-degree perineal lacerations in singleton vaginal deliveries: a comprehensive United States population analysis 2016–2020
- Changes in use of 17-OHPC after the PROLONG trial: a physician survey
- Retrospective comparison of monochorionic diamniotic twin pregnancies stratified by spontaneous or artificial conception
- Associations of cesarean sections with comorbidities within the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System
- The spatial expression of mTORC2-AKT-IP3R signal pathway in mitochondrial combination of endoplasmic reticulum of maternal fetal interface trophoblast in intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy
- Comprehensive analysis of macrosomia: exploring the association between first-trimester alanine aminotransferase and uric acid measurements in pregnant women
- Use, misuse, and overuse of antenatal corticosteroids. A retrospective cohort study
- Classification of normal and abnormal fetal heart ultrasound images and identification of ventricular septal defects based on deep learning
- Virtual touch IQ elastography in the evaluation of fetal liver and placenta in pregnancies with gestational diabetes mellitus
- Fetomaternal outcome of scarred uterine rupture compared with primary uterine rupture: a retrospective cohort study
- Original Articles – Fetus
- The assessment of fetal cardiac functions in pregnancies with autoimmune diseases: a prospective case-control study
- The relationship of maternal polymorphisms of genes related to meiosis and DNA damage repair with fetal chromosomal stability
- Original Articles – Neonates
- German obstetrician’s self-reported attitudes and handling in threatening preterm birth at the limits of viability
- Do parents get what they want during bad news delivery in NICU?