I’m not concerned about AI outcompeting competent writers or impacting my career directly. I am deeply concerned about AI swamping submission systems and destroying the ability of editors and readers to find the next generation of writers.
AI is very much a danger to the long term health of the field not because of competition for quality readable fiction but because of its ability to create dreck in previously unimaginable quantities and drown submission systems and indie publishing in shit.
@KellyMcC
This is my concern about prose/poetry and art, exactly.
A publisher knows good, viable writing. They can get to know when generic swill is being thrown at them. Same with art directors.
But the submission system is already swamped with legitimate writers and artists. The rate at which A.I. prompters can churn out generic mediocre writing and art and submit it is leagues faster than any human creator can even act.
The system will have to change, and it will likely be worse for us.
@KellyMcC
Its just spam these A.I. prompters are delivering. And you know what happens in computing when spam is detected in a system? The source is blocked.
So this could mean that legitimate talent, both writers and artists, get NO chance at all, and we're back to the system of "you gotta know someone" to even get your work seen.
Which is much, much worse.
Kelly McCullough
BlackPixelDust: Art 