{"id":12375,"date":"2024-10-02T10:20:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T17:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12375"},"modified":"2024-10-01T13:50:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T20:50:25","slug":"drowning-in-ai-generated-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12375","title":{"rendered":"Drowning in AI generated content"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Neil Clarke, the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/clarkesworldmagazine.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/clarkesworldmagazine.com\/\"><em>Clarkesworld<\/em> sci-fi magazine<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" data-attachment-id=\"12376\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=12376\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/10\/Firefly-a-cartoon-style-drawing-of-a-frazzled-person-reading-at-a-desk-in-an-office-that-is-about-to.jpg?fit=2048%2C2048&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Firefly a cartoon style drawing of a frazzled person reading at a desk in an office that is about to\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/10\/Firefly-a-cartoon-style-drawing-of-a-frazzled-person-reading-at-a-desk-in-an-office-that-is-about-to.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/10\/Firefly-a-cartoon-style-drawing-of-a-frazzled-person-reading-at-a-desk-in-an-office-that-is-about-to.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12376\" style=\"width:547px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/10\/Firefly-a-cartoon-style-drawing-of-a-frazzled-person-reading-at-a-desk-in-an-office-that-is-about-to.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/10\/Firefly-a-cartoon-style-drawing-of-a-frazzled-person-reading-at-a-desk-in-an-office-that-is-about-to.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/10\/Firefly-a-cartoon-style-drawing-of-a-frazzled-person-reading-at-a-desk-in-an-office-that-is-about-to.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/10\/Firefly-a-cartoon-style-drawing-of-a-frazzled-person-reading-at-a-desk-in-an-office-that-is-about-to.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/10\/Firefly-a-cartoon-style-drawing-of-a-frazzled-person-reading-at-a-desk-in-an-office-that-is-about-to.jpg?resize=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/10\/Firefly-a-cartoon-style-drawing-of-a-frazzled-person-reading-at-a-desk-in-an-office-that-is-about-to.jpg?resize=270%2C270&amp;ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/10\/Firefly-a-cartoon-style-drawing-of-a-frazzled-person-reading-at-a-desk-in-an-office-that-is-about-to.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/10\/Firefly-a-cartoon-style-drawing-of-a-frazzled-person-reading-at-a-desk-in-an-office-that-is-about-to.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/10\/Firefly-a-cartoon-style-drawing-of-a-frazzled-person-reading-at-a-desk-in-an-office-that-is-about-to.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Why do people submit low-quality AI generated content? <em>Clarkesworld<\/em> 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&#8217;s basically free money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clarke <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/scammers-get-rich-chatgpt\">blamed influencers<\/a> for the flood of AI generated submissions. He suggests that there are &#8220;[influencers] waving a bunch of money on YouTube or TikTok videos and saying, &#8216;Oh, you can make money with ChatGPT by doing this [using ChatGPT to generate a story then get free money if it&#8217;s accepted].'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/editors-sci-fi-magazine-disgusted-ai-slop\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/editors-sci-fi-magazine-disgusted-ai-slop<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/ai-generated-content-internet-online-slop-spam.html\">https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/ai-generated-content-internet-online-slop-spam.html<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/02\/21\/clarkesworld-ai-generated-submissions\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/02\/21\/clarkesworld-ai-generated-submissions\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12375\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3dB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12380,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375\/revisions\/12380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}