![]() ![]() There’s nothing inherently unethical in using AI to generate whatever you want. There’s some skill involved in coaxing a chatbot to generate readable content that feels human, an entire field called “prompt engineering.” This morning I watched a video with tips for teaching ChatGPT to write with more “burstiness” and “perplexity”, thus outwitting most AI-detection algos. As Frank Zappa famously said, art is whatever you put a frame around. That doesn’t necessarily mean that bot-generated writing isn’t “art” in some sense of word. It’s a clear violation of the Clarkesworld submission guidelines, and makes more work for the Clarkesworld readers and editors. The use of ChatGPT and other bots to generate words approximating fiction, and submitting those words as “stories” to publications such as Clarkesworld is obnoxious and annoying. Prior to late 2022, that was mostly plagiarism. This is the number of people we've had to ban by month. ![]() Just to be clear, this is NOT the number of submissions we receive by month. ![]()
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