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> Before anyone does the “but the quality” song and dance number, none of those works had any chance at publication, even if they weren’t in violation of our gu

> Before anyone does the “but the quality” song and dance number, none of those works had any chance at publication, even if they weren’t in violation of our guidelines. So what's the point in even trying this? Why would you waste their time with something that has no chance at being accepted? I don't understand what the motive is for these AI submissions in the first place.

Tepix 3y ago
I've received more than 100,000 spam mails in the last two decades. They have been unsuccessful. Unfortunately, they keep coming.
tester457 3y ago
It's part of the GPT grift on social media. Youtubers peddle these dumb ideas for making money with chatgpt, and don't actually use those ideas to make money. Their viewers try and fail.
kayodelycaon 3y ago
Because any payoff would be worth the effort. It's the same as people spamming bug bounty programs by using publicly available scanning tools. All it takes is one success anywhere for people to keep trying to spam every possible endpoint. It's why people stand at street corners with signs. It's also why people gamble at casinos. It's why loot boxes sell so well. Humans can not resist the urge to continuously throw effort at things with rare, intermittent rewards. Cost/reward is not taken into account, only the reward. Sadly, belief in a reward is enough to trigger this. There never needs to be any actual reward.
jsheard 3y ago
There's an industry of get-rich-quick grifters who are telling people they can make $1000/day by submitting AI generated slurry to Kindle, Audible, or anything else that pays for writing. It's an evolution of previous schemes which used ghostwriting services to produce similar low-quality content, but of course the scam has pivoted to AI now. It's unlikely that many of the people submitting these works are actually making much if any money, the real winners are the grifters who sold them the expensive course explaining how to do it, but the people who fall for the scam are going to try their hardest to get the ROI they were promised. Which means spraying AI diarrhea everywhere in the hope it sticks to something.
TheCoelacanth 3y ago
A variety of influencers in developing countries tell their audiences that they can make money by submitting AI-generated stories to sites with open submissions. The people submitting don't know that there's virtually zero chance of acceptance and are trying to get the fee for a published story, which is a substantial amount in their country. The influencers probably know that the scheme won't work, but don't care because they just need to keep their audience watching.
zomglings 3y ago
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -- Wayne Gretzky -- person who made a GPT-generated submission to Clarkesworld, probably
raverbashing 3y ago
The problem is low-effort/low-gain spammers They DGAF, they push their low effort scam and if it works it works (I really wonder if there's some geographical bias here on the submissions) Especially with his focus on not alienating marginalized submitters, though I'm not sure how long he'll be able to keep that around

Tepix 3y ago

I've received more than 100,000 spam mails in the last two decades. They have been unsuccessful. Unfortunately, they keep coming.

tester457 3y ago

It's part of the GPT grift on social media. Youtubers peddle these dumb ideas for making money with chatgpt, and don't actually use those ideas to make money. Their viewers try and fail.

kayodelycaon 3y ago

Because any payoff would be worth the effort. It's the same as people spamming bug bounty programs by using publicly available scanning tools. All it takes is one success anywhere for people to keep trying to spam every possible endpoint. It's why people stand at street corners with signs. It's also why people gamble at casinos. It's why loot boxes sell so well. Humans can not resist the urge to continuously throw effort at things with rare, intermittent rewards. Cost/reward is not taken into account, only the reward. Sadly, belief in a reward is enough to trigger this. There never needs to be any actual reward.

jsheard 3y ago

There's an industry of get-rich-quick grifters who are telling people they can make $1000/day by submitting AI generated slurry to Kindle, Audible, or anything else that pays for writing. It's an evolution of previous schemes which used ghostwriting services to produce similar low-quality content, but of course the scam has pivoted to AI now. It's unlikely that many of the people submitting these works are actually making much if any money, the real winners are the grifters who sold them the expensive course explaining how to do it, but the people who fall for the scam are going to try their hardest to get the ROI they were promised. Which means spraying AI diarrhea everywhere in the hope it sticks to something.

TheCoelacanth 3y ago

A variety of influencers in developing countries tell their audiences that they can make money by submitting AI-generated stories to sites with open submissions. The people submitting don't know that there's virtually zero chance of acceptance and are trying to get the fee for a published story, which is a substantial amount in their country. The influencers probably know that the scheme won't work, but don't care because they just need to keep their audience watching.

zomglings 3y ago

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -- Wayne Gretzky -- person who made a GPT-generated submission to Clarkesworld, probably

raverbashing 3y ago

The problem is low-effort/low-gain spammers They DGAF, they push their low effort scam and if it works it works (I really wonder if there's some geographical bias here on the submissions) Especially with his focus on not alienating marginalized submitters, though I'm not sure how long he'll be able to keep that around