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A sci-fi magazine editor says his team are sent so many 'consistently bad' AI-generated articles that their workload has almost doubled (www.msn.com)
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  • Employees at a small publication say AI-powered tools are making their jobs harder.
  • A magazine editor told CNN his team struggled to review the huge volume of articles generated by AI.
  • Neil Clarke said the publication had to temporarily shut down its submission form.
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not to malign your post OP but for some context this happened in (iirc) February. So it's not even like this is just now happening, it was pretty soon after the release of ChatGPT.

I really suggest checking out the original blog post, it has an INSANE graph of submission count (and yeah, it was Feb 2023). And the owner of the magazine is absolutely against submission fees because it goes against the ethos of the magazine in the first place, which is to make a platform for unknown authors, who are often from countries where easy online payment structures aren't in place; and also, a submission fee restricts to those who can afford it. Really tragic ending.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Reverse card: vet the submissions with ChatGPT.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Edit - reposting since the first link broke ... :/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It makes me wonder though at what point an “author” will reveal that a published, reviewed work was written completely by AI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can already find plenty of self published work on ebook stores that are definitely not written by AI. I expect it won't be long before there's a scandal where a well known author is able to push through a mostly AI written book on the strength of their name.

A completely AI written work going through the traditional publishing process seems unlikely, at least for a while. LLMs are great at producing coherent language, but there's a lot more to writing a story. AI research follows cycles where new techniques produce eye opening achievements, followed by lulls as their limitations are better understood. We're due for another lull, for better or worse.