Cross-sectional survey reveals significant links between ethical prompting and generative AI adoption among academic librarians, highlighting the need for institutional guidelines.
Key Points
To investigate the extent of generative AI tool adoption and the role of ethical prompting practices in academic writing among university librarians.
Conducted a cross-sectional survey utilizing a structured questionnaire administered to academic librarians in Nigerian universities.
Assessed the adoption of writing tools (including ChatGPT, Grammarly, QuillBot, Gemini, and Copilot) and awareness of ethical issues such as output verification, disclosure, and plagiarism avoidance.
Academic librarians frequently utilized generative AI applications for idea generation, language editing, summarization, paraphrasing, and manuscript refinement.
Ethical prompting practices exhibited a statistically significant, moderate positive correlation with generative AI tool adoption and served as a significant predictor of overall generative AI usage.