Sci fi publisher Clarkesworld halts pitches amid deluge of AI-generated stories

[redhead]

Sci-fi publisher Clarkesworld halts pitches amid deluge of AI-generated stories

Founding editor says 500 pitches rejected this month and their ‘authors’ banned, as influencers promote ‘get rich quick’ schemes

www.theguardian.com

It's like something out of a bad science fiction story: one of the leading speculative fiction magazines has had to close itself to new submissions due to a flood of low-quality AI-generated stories. It seems like it's not science fiction enthusiasts eager to use a new technology to inform their work, but rather techbros looking to make a quick buck.

I'm not sure what the future looks like with AI and art, but hopefully this current issue goes the way of the NFT craze.

 

[TrixRabbi]

Looks pretty dire. Really hoping this drops off as the A.I. generated stories are not even approaching a standard of quality for halfway decent fiction and I can't imagine this is going to be particularly lucrative for these scam artists trying to make a quick buck selling a story to journals.

 

[MichaelHW]

Sci-fi publisher Clarkesworld halts pitches amid deluge of AI-generated stories

Founding editor says 500 pitches rejected this month and their ‘authors’ banned, as influencers promote ‘get rich quick’ schemes

www.theguardian.com

It's like something out of a bad science fiction story: one of the leading speculative fiction magazines has had to close itself to new submissions due to a flood of low-quality AI-generated stories. It seems like it's not science fiction enthusiasts eager to use a new technology to inform their work, but rather techbros looking to make a quick buck.

I'm not sure what the future looks like with AI and art, but hopefully this current issue goes the way of the NFT craze.

I think we need to discuss a "final solution" to the Tech baron problem, if mankind is to survive. I don't mean Musk. After all, he will be in voluntary exile in a tin can on Mars. And pose a problem to no one.

 

[umbrarchist]

Like predicting cars but not traffic jams.

 

[TrixRabbi]

I for one can't wait to drive my exploding Tesla into a tight underground tube with no apparent escape routes as it fills with smoke.

 

[NurseryRhymes]

Soon they will use an AI to filter out low quality or generated submissions!

 

[umbrarchist]

Soon they will use an AI to filter out low quality or generated submissions!

How would they train it to recognize low quality.

I wrote a computer program some time ago that counted science and fantasy words and computed a science density and fantasy density for texts. A density of 1.00 meant one science or fantasy word per 1000 characters.

A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C Clarke got 1.4 which was quite high.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card got 0.455

So what is quality?