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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