Clarke believes the spammy submissions are coming from people looking to make a quick buck and who found Clarkesworld and other publications through "side hustle" influencers and websites. One website, for example, is loaded with SEO bait articles and keywords around marketing, writing, and business and promises to help readers make money quickly. The article encourages readers to use AI tools to help them and includes affiliate marketing links to Jasper, an AI writing software.

Neil Clarke is one of the foremost editors of science fiction--and now he's faced with a very sci-fi problem. The monthly literary magazine he founded in 2006, Clarkesworld, publishes user-submitted sci-fi and fantasy. Since December, though, Clarke has been overwhelmed with entries that clearly have been written by tools that use GPT-3, machine language software developed by the company OpenAI. The uptick coincided with the release of ChatGPT, the chatbot released by OpenAI in November. ChatGPT and tools like the digital image creator DALL-E have reignited public discourse about how humans and technology interact, as well as the ethics of using AI in school homework, journalism, and even professional art.

Will an AI system ever create art that can equal a work created by a human? Researchers and artists are already making attempts to find out by translating creativity into algorithms. To answer whether these attempts are likely to generate artwork -- music, poetry, fiction, visual art -- that can pass for human-created work starts with understanding how human creativity functions. While the potential for rational thinking and mathematical ability in humans are present at birth, we still require education to fully realize these capabilities. So we study the laws of nature, logic puzzles, ethical dilemmas, and so on.