Sci-fi magazine overwhelmed by hundreds of AI-generated stories

Robots can't write sci-fi – yet Science fiction magazine Clarkesworld has halted story submissions after receiving a growing deluge of AI-generated pieces. The magazine's founding editor, Neil Clarke, says the problem has been created by people promoting surprisingly capable AI language models such as ChatGPT as a way to earn money from fiction publishing – despite the poor quality of the AI stories. "The machine-written submissions we've received are far from publishable quality," he says. "I'm sure there are some that are less detectable, but the majority we've received have been easy for me to identify." Clarke says that he has talked to other magazine editors who currently have the same problem, although he says they have been reluctant to speak to the press – as he was, until the problem grew to unsustainable levels.