In one Clarkesworld submission, Clarke writes, someone submitted a story with the following sentence: “Sitting on its three years’ experience, the fittest Shell was originally the size of more android subliminal observations than any other single subject in the Grandma.” The submission was reconstituted from a story published in 1956.Ĭlarke writes that he bans plagiarists from submitting again, but at least one has complained that they “need the money.” As his graph shows, the amount of Clarkesworld submissions has ballooned over the past few weeks, and many of them are AI-generated. AI writing tools have proliferated in recent years, claiming to write original stories but delivering mixed results.

The essay Clarke links to goes into more detail about would-be contributors using AI programs to scrape existing published stories and repackage them as original works. pRSVX4mpKt- clarkesworld February 15, 2023 The link goes into details, but this is a graph of submission bans since 2019.

This is a problem for short fiction submissions and it's not just going to go away.

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