GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND AUTHORSHIP GOVERNANCE IN VIETNAMESE SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS: LEGAL CHALLENGES AND POLICY OPTIONS

Abstract

This article examines how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping authorship governance in Vietnamese scientific journals, with attention to its interaction with Vietnam’s intellectual property framework and norms of academic integrity. Using a legal–policy and conceptual approach, it reviews key aspects of the 2022 Intellectual Property Law, emerging proposals for AI regulation, and existing integrity rules, together with recent findings on plagiarism and ChatGPT use among Vietnamese students. Under Vietnamese law, authorship is limited to individuals who directly create a work, and named persons are presumed right holders; yet GenAI can generate or revise scientific text without legal personhood, complicating attribution while leaving formal presumptions intact. Persistent issues—plagiarism, “name lending,” and uneven enforcement—are further entangled when GenAI is used for drafting, paraphrasing, or stylistic imitation. Large-scale training on Vietnamese-language materials also raises concerns about unlicensed use of articles, theses, and unpublished manuscripts, with possible effects on priority and scientific credit. The article contends that Vietnamese journals and regulators should align international AI standards with domestic law, reinforce disclosure and authorship rules, adopt safeguards against opaque reuse and scraping, clarify the responsibilities of human authors and GenAI providers, and encourage empirical research on GenAI use in Vietnam.

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