A sudden influx of AI-generated short stories has forced a popular sci-fi mag to close submissions.
Whereas artificial intelligence has long been the subject of popular science fiction writing, nowadays it's writing it. That's causing a bit of a headache for the editors over at popular sci-fi and fantasy magazine,. The magazine has put a halt to new short story submissions due to a spectacularly high increase in spam, mostly linked to a rise in popularity of chatbots, such as ChatGPT.
Clarkesworld pays for submissions that are accepted into the magazine. The fee is based on the word count at 12¢ per word, meaning that longer submissions, if accepted, could pay out a reasonable cash sum. "Since the early days of the pandemic, I’ve observed an increase in the number of spammy submissions to Clarkesworld," Neil Clarke, editor-in-chief of Clarkesworld writes in a"... Up until recently, these were almost entirely cases of plagiarism, first by replacing the author’s name and then later by use of programs designed to 'make it your own.'
Then the AI chatbots became a publicly available tool, which has been attributed to a massive spike in attempts to spam the website since.
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