A human who directs, critically reviews, approves, and takes responsibility for an LLM-generated paper can legitimately count as its author, by the same criteria that make non-writing senior researchers authors.
[c]ontributors who meet fewer than all 4 of the above criteria for authorship should not be listed as authors, but they should be acknowledged
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Authorship Without Writing: Large Language Models and the Senior Author Analogy
A human who directs, critically reviews, approves, and takes responsibility for an LLM-generated paper can legitimately count as its author, by the same criteria that make non-writing senior researchers authors.