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Sci-fi mag pauses submissions amid flood of AI-generated short stories
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Re: Sci-fi mag pauses submissions amid flood of AI-generated short stories
#12It'd be interesting if they did like that college prof someone wrote about here, and published AI-written stories with obvious issues, then awarded for best fix / polish / response to editor feedback / requests for integration of specific domain knowledge / etc. If writers are gonna AI, then make sure to also test their AI-wielding skill to a very high level and definitely dwell on areas that are tough for AI. It see…
>If writers are gonna AI,
writers are gonna write. it's the assholes that are gonna ai.
Re: Sci-fi mag pauses submissions amid flood of AI-generated short stories
#13My question is, what is the difference between this and those who just pay ghost writers to write a story about what they instruct for submission?
If the contents is exactly what the person submitting intends, what's the big deal?
Re: Sci-fi mag pauses submissions amid flood of AI-generated short stories
#14It shouldn't matter which tools were used to write a story, just whether it's a good story or not. However, how would any publisher assess such a flood of submissions? Use AI to pre-classify stories as good/mediocre/bad?
This is incorrect. The absurd extreme of what you are advocating is full automation at which point people do literally nothing but consume content.
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Re: Sci-fi mag pauses submissions amid flood of AI-generated short stories
#15My question is, what is the difference between this and those who just pay ghost writers to write a story about what they instruct for submission? If the contents is exactly what the person submitting intends, what's the big deal?
Volume primarily. They showed a graph of how many submissions they’ve had to ban. It was a trickle due to plagiarism etc. and now it’s several orders of magnitude more. Their submission criteria also explicitly forbids AI generated work.
Re: Sci-fi mag pauses submissions amid flood of AI-generated short stories
#16I'm surprised that they are only getting 500ish submissions. Seems like all you need to really jam up the review process is an unbound while().
If they get that many submissions, they'll just delete 90% of them without a glance.
Re: Sci-fi mag pauses submissions amid flood of AI-generated short stories
#17My question is, what is the difference between this and those who just pay ghost writers to write a story about what they instruct for submission? If the contents is exactly what the person submitting intends, what's the big deal?
Sounds like it's a combination of not wanting to deal with the number of submissions increasing every month, a philosophical stance of wanting to support serious, human writers rather than people trying to make a quick buck, and perhaps some trepidation about the legality/ethics involved (since they use the word "plagiarize" in the article).
Re: Sci-fi mag pauses submissions amid flood of AI-generated short stories
#18I posted an article by the editor 5 days ago on this issue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34817148 but didn't get any notice.
Re: Sci-fi mag pauses submissions amid flood of AI-generated short stories
#19It shouldn't matter which tools were used to write a story, just whether it's a good story or not. However, how would any publisher assess such a flood of submissions? Use AI to pre-classify stories as good/mediocre/bad?
This is incorrect. The absurd extreme of what you are advocating is full automation at which point people do literally nothing but consume content.
There's already too much entertainment. It's a completely oversaturated market.
Re: Sci-fi mag pauses submissions amid flood of AI-generated short stories
#20I posted an article by the editor 5 days ago on this issue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34817148 but didn't get any notice.
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