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Kelly McCullough May 28, 2023

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.

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Stephen Cerruti

@KellyMcC said the cobbler about making shoes at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Yet here we are, most of us wearing factory made shoes rather than better custom made shoes because of the economics of the situation.

The quality could suffer, but the cost and availability will compensate. You have two choices, be one of the very few people who continue to hand make custom shoes for the rich or learn to use AI to create stories in a more productive fashion.