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Web Content and Discussion Guidelines

A Cosmology Group draws its mandate from the Open Letter to the Scientific Community to engage scientists in an open exchange of ideas beyond the framework of Standard Cosmology through a critical examination of the methods and investigations of cosmology.

Ground rules concerning topics accepted on the Group's GitHub repository

A Cosmology Group will only accept topics with a first-degree relationship with cosmology and empirical observations.

Topics in fundamental physics which may have some relevance to cosmology may be discussed in an Essay to establish if the link with cosmology is demonstrated or only speculative.

Examples:

  • "Discussion of galaxy rotation curves as explained by MOND or dark matter" ✔️
  • "Discussion of MOND or Dark Matter as explanations of galaxy rotation curves" 🚫

Ground rules concerning the use of Generative AI

Following the lead of Nature1 and other major publishers2, A Cosmology Group will not accept 'generative AI' tools as credited authors on a research paper, nor output from such tools cited in papers or a-cosmology-group/discussions.

'Generative AI' produces patterns of words based on statistical correlations in their training data and text provided by users, producing an output that appears like normal language but that may contain fundamental errors. Furthermore, 'language models' cannot provide references for their output, which is counter to the principles of scientific research.3

Examples:

  • "We used Google and ChatGPT to find the reference to Lemaitre's article L'hypothèse de l'atome primitif. Essai de cosmogonie.4" ✔️
  • "We asked ChatGPT What are the three forces of nature? The three fundamental forces of nature are gravity, electromagnetism, [...]" 🚫

© 2018--2025 ACG

Footnotes

  1. Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video ↩

  2. Major publishers are banning ChatGPT from being listed as an academic author. What's the big deal? ↩

  3. Tools such as ChatGPT threaten transparent science; here are our ground rules for their use ↩

  4. Georges Lemaître, L'hypothèse de l'atome primitif: essai de cosmogonie, Epistèmè, O. Godart (1972) https://ark.unamur.be/ark:/83449/00775d1424 ↩