Sci-Fi Becomes Real as Renowned Magazine Closes Submissions Due to AI Writers
Freeman writes:
Clarkesworld wrestles with flood of machine-made submissions-over 500 in Feb. alone:
One side effect of unlimited content-creation machines-generative AI-is unlimited content. On Monday, the editor of the renowned sci-fi publication Clarkesworld Magazine announced that he had temporarily closed story submissions due to a massive increase in machine-generated stories sent to the publication.
In a graph shared on Twitter, Clarkesworld editor Neil Clarke tallied the number of banned writers submitting plagiarized or machine-generated stories. The numbers totaled 500 in February, up from just over 100 in January and a low baseline of around 25 in October 2022. The rise in banned submissions roughly coincides with the release of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022.
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