AI, a top contributor to the dumbing of America.

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Little of both? Little of both.

I'm gonna need an ai to figure out what stories I like reading most.

I guess they might as well create them while they are at it. I'll be curated into my own little whirlpool of culture.

Could be with time, people interlope into my taste stream and find it refreshing. Then I'll charge them for the pleasure...

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lol at not letting robots write sci-fi

Not surprised. Clarkesworld is probably the fastest and most efficient publisher when it comes to short story submissions. Most importantly, they pay well. There's a whole community around using AI tools to make a quick buck off low/no effort slosh like this.

Grifters ruin everything

Hmm. I don't think of publishers as gatekeepers. Instead, I think of them as curators. They do hugely valuable work and I appreciate them very much.

The gatekeeping angle especially doesn't apply here. Clarkesworld normally accepts submissions from all and has no submission cost.

And pretty much everywhere else. If your English isn't great or is nonexistant and you can't write and you see a chance to make a quick buck why wouldn't you try and use it?

Just because grifters and scammers have poor English or are non-speakers doesn't make it anymore justified than if some native English speaker did the same.

And your fundamental rationale is extremely flawed and ultimately destructive to any creative ecosystem. So no, I don't support any of these lazy assholes flooding sites with (low-quality) AI generated garbage because they are too incompetent to do anything of value for society.

This is next generation equivalent of making trash YouTube videos with little/no value to capture ad revenue, with less work.

As a writer who submits work to magazines, I am so annoyed by this.

Why think hard when you can let someone else think harder for you.

I wasn't justifying it or asking you to support it, I was offering an explanation. Now reread you comments and mine and see if you can discern where your thinking went awry.

There is something ironic about a Sci-Fi magazine rejecting a new technology.

I would prefer they simply chose the stories that are good. Be it human, AI assisted or purely AI written.

For now, human curation is still necessary - on the author and the publisher side, for good results.

With the next AI versions , it will probably be impossible to tell anyway.

I have been finding interactive Ai stories to be really fun.

1. Go to chatgpt
2. Ask for a general story outline based around some topic you are interested in.
3. Choose your own adventure and clarify the details

I think their concern is less about being AI made and more of the fact they don't want their business to be treated like someone's automatic money-making machine as if they were a graphic card abused by a crypto miner, most AI enthusiasts are pretty much the same as a crypto miner.

We all know how that went for people that wanted a graphic card for real jobs or play games but couldn't because someone hoarded them all to mine crypto and ended up being thrown away all wasted and useless after the market crashed and the hoarder probably committed unalive after losing all their money.

The problem just moved to somewhere else.

It really does take a special kind of someone to do this and be able to sleep at night.

Sci fi magazines are maybe the first people I'd expect to reject this. The upcoming misuses of ai is exactly what writers have been warning about for decades. Also, their inboxes are literally being overwhelmed to the point of uselessness with this low quality spam. That's not useful to anyone!

Digital media is quickly becoming obsolete if you can mass distribute content like this. The age of the painters are coming back! Be physical not digital :)

Most products you are served up online are probably selected by ML recommendation models of varying complexity

This about sums up thr majority of AI content. Rushed, mass produced, low effort, and hurried submissions made by people wanting to earn profit or recognition in the least amount of work.

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>There is something ironic about a Sci-Fi magazine rejecting a new technology.

One of the themes that pops up in sci-fi a lot is being cautious about technological advancement. For example, Terminator is about AI annihilating almost all of humanity, so the message there is "We should be careful with how far we take AI."

I bet that the writers who've worked on the Terminator franchise would agree that we should be careful with AI, especially now that its usage is becoming more mainstream. (Not to mention how programs like ChatGPT are already complicating their entire profession.)

Wow, that almost sounds like the plot of a Sci Fi story…

>You know what's worse than AI stealing our jobs? Paywalls

Their podcast is free.

I could make a quick buck right now by stealing my neighbor’s amazon packages, but I don’t.

It’s a new kind of theft. You essentially take a writer’s work away when you replace it with AI non-writing created by grifters as another side hustle when the drop shipping thing didn’t pan out.

Digital media including … written language?

The magazine's goal is to publish underserved voices from around the world, how would publishing AI spam accomplish that?

>I guess they might as well create them while they are at it. I'll be curated into my own little whirlpool of culture.

Give it a few years, but I think this is quite plausible