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How to disclose AI assistance in writing in French
Explain AI assistance in French: name the drafting or editing task, describe human checks and accept authorship responsibility. Four scenes and 24 translated lines.
- B2
- 24 phrases
- 4 situations
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In short
State the task plainly: J’ai utilisé un outil d’intelligence artificielle pour proposer un plan. Add what you checked and what you kept: J’ai vérifié les références et rédigé la version finale. Use Je reste responsable du contenu publié to state your responsibility.
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Une aide à la rédaction covers writing assistance; une relecture is a review of a draft. The scenes below offer different task descriptions. Choose the lines that match the work actually done and the format requested by your editor.
1 · Identify the assisted task
An editor asks how an article was prepared.
2 · Describe language editing
For another text, the assistance concerned wording.
3 · State what a human checked
Name each check rather than using a broad assurance.
4 · Confirm the disclosure and responsibility
Agree where the process note will appear.
J’ai utilisé un outil d’IA pour proposer le plan et une première version de l’introduction. J’ai réécrit l’introduction, développé les arguments et vérifié les dates, les chiffres, les citations et les références dans les sources. J’ai validé la version finale et je reste responsable du contenu publié.
I used an AI tool to suggest the outline and an initial version of the introduction. I rewrote the introduction, developed the arguments and checked the dates, figures, quotations and references against the sources. I approved the final version and remain responsible for the published content.
This note brings together the tasks and checks described in scenes 1, 3 and 4.