Kristin Foley

1 Introduction Paraprofessionals, “a person to whom a particular aspect of a professional task is delegated but who is not licensed to practice as a fully qualified professional” (Oxford n.d.), have been used in a variety of professions, including medicine, education, social work, law, and behavior analysis.

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, do not currently satisfy our authorship criteria. Notably an attribution of authorship carries with it accountability for the work, which cannot be effectively applied to LLMs. Use of an LLM should be properly documented in the Methods section (and if a Methods section is not available, in a suitable alternative part) of the manuscript. The best guidance for use of a LLM or AI is to document any contributions to your work in an upfront manner.