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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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Martin Johnstone May 28, 2023

@KellyMcC a submission system that doesn't delineate between humans and non humans isn't a submission system. It's a commercial enterprise engine.0 Run by entities. Not people. I'll invite you to reconsider the use of the term AI by considering you are both Sapient and Sentient. No machine in my experience, after over 30 years working with evolving neural networks, is actually intelligent.

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Kelly McCullough

@thecharmingcompany LLMs obviously aren't intelligence in any meaningful way, but that's the term that is in common use, and I don't see a lot of point in trying to cram all of the reasons that's not a great term into a post discussing the impact of the systems on the artistic submission process. I could certainly right a thousand word essay on why AI isn't but it's at best peripheral to my point.