Reply to post: "...AI could turn writing from a serious craft into a cheap commodity"

I can't do that, Dave: AI drowns top sci-fi mag with story submissions

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"...AI could turn writing from a serious craft into a cheap commodity"

It could be argued that eBooks, particularly Kindles, have already done that. Certainly, I've found a lot of free/cheap works on the kindle store that would never have seen the light of day if quality was a serious factor.

But even so, this lament seems old - wasn't 'pulp fiction' the previous threat to serious writing? What we do need is for publishers to clearly and prominently state where books have been auto-generated. Then we can vote with our wallets.

Which doesn't really help publications like Clarkesworld, though. The danger is that this sort of spam might make it very difficult for smaller publishers to survive, and that would be a loss to us all.

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