Three ideas for foiling AI spamming of SFF zines
According to Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld (as quoted in this
Guardian
article), there are get-rich-quick schemers out there who are encouraging people to submit AI-generated stories to high-paying, highly regarded venues. Clarkesworld has seen an increase from an average of 10 to over 500. As a consequence, Clarkesworld has closed submissions.
Another venue said it would only accept submissions from known authors.
That’s a terrible blow for up-and-coming writers and ultimately for the whole ecosyst...
Another venue said it would only accept submissions from known authors.
That’s a terrible blow for up-and-coming writers and ultimately for the whole ecosyst...
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Feb 24, 2023 04:11AM
Wow. I guess it's going to be a while before all this shakes out, before we learn if there are general benefits to AI and are sure which aspects need to be regulated .
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Yeah--this story (the story of Clarkesworld shutting down submissions) actually made NPR's evening radio news yesterday. It's interesting that at present the problem isn't that AI stories are as good as human-produced ones--they're apparently still so bad that, according to the publisher, there's no chance that one would ever be accepted--but just that they're so effortless to produce that people can spam the magazines with them.
... It will be a whole other thing if and when the programs become good enough to turn out a story that people would want to read.
