Artificial Intelligence Policy

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy

This policy governs the use of generative artificial intelligence and AI-assisted tools (for example, large language models, chatbots, paraphrasing tools, and image generators) by authors, editors, and reviewers of Fakta: Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Islam. People, not tools, remain fully responsible for the originality, accuracy, confidentiality, and integrity of all work handled by the journal.

Authors

  • AI tools cannot be listed as authors, because they cannot take responsibility for the work or approve its publication.
  • Authors may use AI tools for limited support, such as improving language and readability or assisting with code, provided that they review and verify every output.
  • Authors must not use AI tools to fabricate or manipulate data, to generate references, to produce findings or interpretations that the authors have not verified, or to create images or figures, unless AI itself is the object of the research.
  • Any use of AI must be disclosed in the AI statement in the Declarations section, naming the tool, its purpose, and the parts of the manuscript affected. If no AI was used, authors state this.
  • Undisclosed or inappropriate use of AI is handled under the Research Misconduct Policy.

Example statement: "During the preparation of this article, the authors used [tool name] to [purpose, e.g., check grammar in the Introduction]. The authors reviewed and edited the output and take full responsibility for the content." Or: "The authors did not use generative AI tools in preparing this article."

Editors

  • Editors must not upload manuscripts, review reports, or decision letters, in whole or in part, to AI tools that could compromise confidentiality.
  • Editorial judgments and decisions are made by editors and are never delegated to AI tools.
  • Any use of AI by editors in their own editorial work, such as checking the language of their own correspondence, must be disclosed to the Editor-in-Chief.

Reviewers

Reviewers are strictly prohibited from using AI tools in the review process. This includes using AI to analyze or assess a manuscript, to draft or edit review comments, and uploading or entering a manuscript or any part of it into an AI application. Reviews found to have been produced with AI will be disregarded, and the reviewer will be removed from the reviewer pool.