Generative AI Use Declaration

Effective March 16, 2026, all manuscripts submitted to the Polish Journal of Food and Nutrition Sciences must comply with a new requirement for the disclosure of generative AI use. Manuscripts that do not meet this requirement will not be considered for peer review. Declaring the use of AI Tools supports transparency and trust between authors, readers, reviewers, editors and contributors and facilitates compliance with the terms of use of the relevant AI Tool.

Definition of Generative AI
Generative AI refers to a category of artificial intelligence systems capable of autonomously producing original outputs, including text, images, audio, video, code, and synthetic data, that resemble human-created content. These systems are typically based on advanced machine learning architectures, such as large language models (LLMs), diffusion models, and generative adversarial networks (GANs), which learn probabilistic representations from large-scale datasets. Despite their increasing prevalence, the use of generative AI tools in the preparation of academic manuscripts is subject to substantial restrictions and disclosure requirements imposed by many scholarly publishers and academic institutions, primarily due to concerns regarding authorship attribution, academic integrity, transparency, reproducibility, and potential bias.

Disclosure Requirement
Authors should disclose the use of AI Tools for manuscript preparation in the ADDITIONAL INFORMATION section of the manuscript file (before the REFERENCES section). The AI declaration statement in their manuscript upon submission and a statement will appear in the published work. Authors should document their use of AI, including the name of the AI Tool used, the purpose and extent of its use. Basic checks of grammar, spelling and punctuation need no declaration. AI use in the research process should be declared and described in detail in the methods section.