Sci fi magazine halts submissions thanks to AI

[Vladd67]

Major sci-fi magazine halts submissions due to flood of stories written by AI chatbots

"No, it’s not the death of short fiction (please just stop that nonsense), but it is going to complicate things."

www.pcgamer.com

If only people would read submission instructions.

 

[OuttaInc]

“Sci fi magazine halts submissions thanks to AI”

Technically it’s thanks to humans who thought they could improve their chances of publication by using AI instead of writing their own damn stories.

 

[Boaz]

Two weeks ago at a coffee shop, I overheard a man saying that his chat bot was working furiously. He said as soon as it produced a decent idea, he’d improve it and submit it.

 

[LostCosmonaut]

Seems like having an AI generate your story ideas for you kind of defeats the point, no?

 

[Wayne Mack]

Seems like having an AI generate your story ideas for you kind of defeats the point, no?

There seem to be a lot sources providing non-AI generated story prompts, I'm not sure AI prompt generation would be better or worse. I'm not sure how a prompt for prompts would work.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

"Art for art's sake,
Money for god's sake." - 10cc.

 

[hitmouse]

This is all a bit, like SF, man.

 

[Boaz]

@hitmouse Ha ha!

Wash: That sounds like something out of science fiction.

Zoe: You live in a space ship, dear

 

[Elckerlyc]

It isn't SF until we get rejection letters signed by 'AI Do Better'

 

[Christine Wheelwright]

It isn't SF until we get rejection letters signed by 'AI Do Better'

Or a rejection barcode.

 

[Elckerlyc]

Or a rejection barcode.

Or just plain binary:
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