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Thorusss t1_j9np66w wrote

There is something ironic about a Sci-Fi magazine rejecting a new technology.

I would prefer they simply chose the stories that are good. Be it human, AI assisted or purely AI written.

For now, human curation is still necessary - on the author and the publisher side, for good results.

With the next AI versions , it will probably be impossible to tell anyway.

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FrankWestingWester t1_j9o0d6j wrote

Sci fi magazines are maybe the first people I'd expect to reject this. The upcoming misuses of ai is exactly what writers have been warning about for decades. Also, their inboxes are literally being overwhelmed to the point of uselessness with this low quality spam. That's not useful to anyone!

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aerosealigte t1_j9nv56e wrote

I think their concern is less about being AI made and more of the fact they don't want their business to be treated like someone's automatic money-making machine as if they were a graphic card abused by a crypto miner, most AI enthusiasts are pretty much the same as a crypto miner.

We all know how that went for people that wanted a graphic card for real jobs or play games but couldn't because someone hoarded them all to mine crypto and ended up being thrown away all wasted and useless after the market crashed and the hoarder probably committed unalive after losing all their money.

The problem just moved to somewhere else.

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TJ_McWeaksauce t1_j9olfs8 wrote

>There is something ironic about a Sci-Fi magazine rejecting a new technology.

One of the themes that pops up in sci-fi a lot is being cautious about technological advancement. For example, Terminator is about AI annihilating almost all of humanity, so the message there is "We should be careful with how far we take AI."

I bet that the writers who've worked on the Terminator franchise would agree that we should be careful with AI, especially now that its usage is becoming more mainstream. (Not to mention how programs like ChatGPT are already complicating their entire profession.)

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cabose7 t1_j9pleoq wrote

The magazine's goal is to publish underserved voices from around the world, how would publishing AI spam accomplish that?

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