It was to be expected, and so it happened. A famous American science fiction publisher, Neil Clarke, has been forced to stop accepting short story manuscripts that he publishes in his magazine. Clarkesworld Magazine. In question, a new form of plagiarism that has emerged in recent months: the texts of the incredible ChatGPT.
Very good at making up stories, even if it is actually inspired by existing texts, the OpenAI chatbot has become a favorite tool for certain influencers who promise their subscribers to “get rich quick”.
One of these means is therefore generating science fiction texts in an attempt to sell them to publishers. “It got out of hand,” says Neil Clarke in a blog post. Text proposals have simply skyrocketed at such a speed that the publisher doesn’t even have time to pick the wheat out of the chaff.
“I have no solution”
If Neil Clarke has an eye for AI-generated text – “there are very obvious patterns” – he also finds that other publishers are inundated with this “spam” as well.
Above all, he worries about the future. While he has already blacklisted hundreds of “perpetrators,” he acknowledges that “technology will only get better, making detection more difficult.”
Since its launch last November, ChatGPT has caused a veritable earthquake in the technological world.
Source: BFM TV
