Science fiction publication Clarkesworld Magazine is no longer accepting submissions of short stories, citing a rise in people turning in work authored by generative AI tools.
In a series of tweets, magazine editor Neil Clarke said the problem stems from people outside the science fiction community, including "side hustlers" that claim to make money easily using OpenAI's ChatGPT bot.
Clarke said Clarkesworld currently doesn't have a solution to the issue, noting that programs aiming to detect AI-written works are "unreliable."
- Charging for submissions is not a viable solution for the magazine, which has won a Hugo Award and a World Fantasy Award.
- Clarkeworld's guidelines already stated that it doesn't accept works written by or with the help of AI.
- The magazine said it may start taking submissions again in the future.
