A science fiction magazine, Clarkesworld, based in New Jersey, has put a temporary hold on submissions due to a surge of stories generated by artificial intelligence (AI), in what appears to be a consequence of the growing prominence of apps like ChatGPT.
The irony of the situation is that the magazine has a robot as its mascot.
The publisher and editor-in-chief, Neil Clarke, put a stop to submissions on February 20, after identifying that around 500 of the 1,200 submissions received were not written by humans.
he magazine pays its writers, and Clarke stated that some people are trying to make quick money with ChatGPT and have been misled to submit machine-generated stories to various magazines, including Clarkesworld.
Clarke noted that they were concerned about the increasing rate at which they received AI-written stories and that the writing was obviously poor.
While he is unsure how to deal with the issue, he hopes to crowdsource solutions. Clarkesworld’s Twitter account announced that submissions would likely be allowed again “sometime next month.”
ChatGPT, invented by OpenAI, is a startup co-founded by billionaire and Twitter CEO Elon Musk, and fears are spreading that it could become the world’s go-to search engine, posing a threat to search engines that rely on users scrolling and researching themselves.
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