Neil Clarke, the founder of Clarkesworld sci-fi magazine, says they are drowning under an onslaught of low-quality AI-generated story submissions. Clarke says almost 50% of their sci-fi story submissions are obviously AI generated. In Feb 2023, he had to shut down online submissions and implement a rudimentary filter. But the problem is only getting worse, and there is a worry the massive amounts of AI generated content will overwhelm his small business.

Why do people submit low-quality AI generated content? Clarkesworld pays about 12 cents a word for an accepted story; so if you can get ChatGPT to generate a story and get is accepted it’s basically free money.

Clarke blamed influencers for the flood of AI generated submissions. He suggests that there are “[influencers] waving a bunch of money on YouTube or TikTok videos and saying, ‘Oh, you can make money with ChatGPT by doing this [using ChatGPT to generate a story then get free money if it’s accepted].'”

Articles:

• https://futurism.com/the-byte/editors-sci-fi-magazine-disgusted-ai-slop
• https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-generated-content-internet-online-slop-spam.html
• https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/21/clarkesworld-ai-generated-submissions/