3 ms·

Then we could reject it on the fact that it's poor quality alone, right?

• em-bee 3y ago
  yes, but i think part of the problem is that the number of submissions is to high. banning AI submitters hopefully discourages these people to continue. at present, AI submissions are not only a quality problem, but also a copyright risk. until we have clear laws and court decisions, any commercial publication can not take the risk of a copyright lawsuit that might come from an AI story incorporating elements of other stories. so even if we want to allow such stories, right now they can't be published. personally, i expect stories to include novel elements, even if just a few, that do not exist in other stories. current AI can't do that, but i do not believe that it will ever be able to. AI may at some time be able to generate stories that are of high quality, but it will never be able to generate stories that contain novel and unique ideas. at best it will contain elements that seem new, but that only means that the reader was not already familiar with them. anything that a computer produces must, by necessity be derived from existing input. computers will never be creative. maybe that is not a problem. maybe the stories will be good enough to entertain. the problem really is that we will be overwhelmed by such stories, and as a result drown out the work of human writers if we do not create environments where only human written stories are featured. i expect that clarkesworld will be such a place. and for this reason alone we must allow a publication and its readers to choose to reject AI stories, no matter how good they are.