These are the people who are trying to make money on the side hustle. The surge of AI-penned submissions was “coming from outside our community,” Clarke said, adding, “These are not people that were trying to legitimately submit fiction to us. According to a Reuters report, Amazon is being flooded with books written entirely by AI.Ī similar phenomenon was at play at Clarkesworld. The recent explosion of generative AI - tools and services that can generate any kind of text or image with a simple prompt - has birthed an online ecosystem of hustlers dishing out dubious advice on how to use online apps like ChatGPT and Midjourney to get rich quick. I decided that the only course of action was to close for some period of time while we dealt with real submissions and figured out how to live in whatever this new world was going to be.” (Clarkesworld will reopen submissions “probably some time next month,” according to the magazine’s Twitter account.) It got to the point, Clarke said, where “I was dreading opening the submissions system. On Monday, after getting more than 50 AI-generated stories before noon, he did something he had never done before in Clarkesworld’s 17-year-old history: He closed new submissions indefinitely. But the number of stories being sent in wasn’t the problem it was the fact that most of them had been written by AI tools like ChatGPT instead of by human authors.Ĭlarke, who lives in New Jersey, had spent most of last week weeding out the spammy submissions, but now, they were pouring in faster than he could keep up.
The editor and publisher of Clarkesworld, a prestigious online magazine that publishes science fiction, was drowning in submissions.
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