Sci-Fi Magazines Are Getting Inundated With AI Fiction Submissions
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About a month in the past, I wrote a bit about Infinite Odyssey, an AI-generated sci-fi journal. Say what you’ll about AI-generated content material normally (and I’ll most likely agree with you, although that’s not that the purpose), however there was no less than one thing curiosity in there about highlighting the act of algorithmic content material creation, over the shape or high quality of the particular content material.
Put one other manner, it’s form of the other of what’s been occurring over at Clarkesworld — an acclaimed sci-fi and fantasy journal with years of awards and pedigree behind it. As editor Neil Clarke just lately defined in a weblog submit (fittingly titled, “A Regarding Development“):
In direction of the top of 2022, there was one other spike in plagiarism after which “AI” chatbots began gaining some consideration, placing a brand new device of their arsenal and inspiring extra to offer this “facet hustle” a strive. It rapidly acquired out of hand […]
The variety of spam submissions leading to bans has hit 38% this month. Whereas rejecting and banning these submissions has been easy, it’s rising at a charge that can necessitate modifications. To make issues worse, the expertise is just going to get higher, so detection will change into tougher. (I’ve little question that a number of rejected tales have already evaded detection or had been circumstances the place we merely erred on the facet of warning.)
“Bans,” Clarke explains, are sometimes attributable to plagiarism — and certainly, he obtained some submissions that had been in reality already-published tales, with the syntax rewritten by AI. Issues like:
Which is derived from this 1956 story by Raymond F. Jones.
That is, sadly, a really actual instance of AI-generated content material inflicting very actual issues for the flesh-and-blood people who’re attempting to make artwork and/or get it on the market into the world. Of the roughly 1000 tales that Clarke considers for publication every month, roughly 350 of these had been written by AI within the first half of February alone — and that’s greater than twice as many as had been submitted in January, in half the time. That takes away from the time he could possibly be spending studying different tales written by precise hoomans — which in flip makes it more durable to get your work revealed in an acclaimed journal like Clarkesworld.
A Regarding Development [Neil Clarke / Clarkesworld]
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