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Clarkesworld Magazine Closed Down Submissions Due to Massive Increase in AI-Generated Stories

February 20, 2023

Sci-fi magazine Clarkesworld temporarily stopped accepting submissions after receiving an overwhelming increase in LLM-generated submissions, citing issues around spam, plagiarism, detection tool unreliability, and authentication.
Alleged deployer
clarkesworld-story-submitters
Alleged developer
openai
Alleged harmed parties
clarkesworld

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