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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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Dhavide Aruliah

@KellyMcC

Yeah, this is really terrible.

One very present danger from "AI" — well, LLMs — is spambots, not the Terminator.

For editors — really anyone who consciously cares about words & meaningful communication — LLMs make the challenges they were already facing worse.

We've already seen the dangers of misinformation through social media since the pandemic started.

We will find it increasingly challenging to trust *anything* that we read *anywhere*.