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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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Nick Xylas May 28, 2023

@thecharmingcompany @KellyMcC Sure, any halfway competent editor will be able to distinguish the good stuff from AI-generated dreck after they've read it. The danger is that the quantity of submissions rises to unmanageable levels due to AI dangling the false promise of being able to submit stories without the effort of actually writing them.

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Kohan Ikin

@nxylas @KellyMcC Does this mean there's an opportunity to jump ahead of AI submission queues by creating a compelling, personalized & inventive submission package?

Derek Sivers wrote about the Captain T conspiracy theory submission pack:

https://sive.rs/capt

(And Nick, since I think I recognize your name - I'm imagining a demo CD that comes with a tiny glitter sparkle Porcupine toy, a little cardboard robot, and a postcard story about a Robot that won't Obey and wants to be a Porcupine.)

Captain T | Derek Sivers