And that the rate it had been growing from previous months, we were concerned that we had to do something to stop it."Ĭlarke said the magazine wasn't revealing the method it was using to identify the AI-generated stories, because it didn't want to help people game the system, but he said the quality of the writing was very poor.Īrtificial intelligence has dominated headlines in recent months, particularly since the launch of ChatGPT in November. "It was increasing at such a rate that we figured that by the end of the month, we would have double the number of submissions we normally have. "By the time we closed on the 20th, around noon, we had received 700 legitimate submissions and 500 machine-written ones," he said. The magazine officially shut off submissions on February 20 after a surge in stories that publisher and editor-in-chief Neil Clarke says were clearly machine-written. The science fiction and fantasy magazine Clarkesworld has been forced to stop accepting any new submissions from writers after it was bombarded with what it says were AI-generated stories. The magazine has been bombarded with AI-generated submissions lately.
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