傳播與社會學刊Communication & Society

Based on ChatGPT’s responses to questions from several communication scholars and drawing on the latest research and discussions in academia and industry, I propose three possible roles for large language models (LLMs) in social science research: the diligent student, the reliable research assistant (RA), and the independent principal investigator (PI). I further discuss these roles in relation to three key issues of LLMs: training data, prompt engineering, and whether probabilistic statistical-based models can be cognitively competent. I conclude by suggesting that social scientists should continue to maintain their sovereignty in scholarly endeavors and actively seek ways to tap the intelligence of LLMs to empower their research.

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方可成（2023）。〈本科生、研究助理、課題負責人？試論ChatGPT在學術研究中的角色〉。《傳播與社會學刊》，第66期，頁53–65。

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Fang, K. (2023). Who is ChatGPT: A college student, RA or PI? Communication and Society, 66, 53–65.