By MLex Staff ( July 23, 2026, 08:57 GMT | Insight) -- China's largest academic database has begun removing papers that list artificial intelligence systems as authors, setting new boundaries for generative AI in academic publishing and reigniting debate over copyright ownership, academic ethics and legal accountability. China National Knowledge Infrastructure, or CNKI, said in a recent statement that it had found some journals publishing papers naming AI tools, including DeepSeek and Google Gemini, as authors. China's largest academic database has begun removing papers that list artificial intelligence systems as authors, setting new boundaries for the use of generative AI in academic publishing and reigniting debate over copyright ownership, academic ethics and legal accountability....
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