clarkesworld
@clarkesworld
Feb 20
Submissions are currently closed. It shouldn't be hard to guess why.

Feb 20, 2023 · 4:48 PM UTC
clarkesworld
@clarkesworld
Feb 21
It's no longer possible for me to keep up with the responses to this tweet and the others. Want to put a few things out there:
clarkesworld
@clarkesworld
Feb 21
1. We aren't closing the magazine. Closing submissions means that we aren't considering stories from authors at this time. We will reopen, but have not set a date.
clarkesworld
@clarkesworld
Feb 21
2. We don't have a solution for the problem. We have some ideas for minimizing it, but the problem isn't going away. Detectors are unreliable. Pay-to-submit sacrifices too many legit authors. Print submissions are not viable for us.
clarkesworld
@clarkesworld
Feb 21
3. Various third-party tools for identity confirmation are more expensive than magazines can afford and tend to have regional holes. Adopting them would be the same as banning entire countries.
clarkesworld
@clarkesworld
Feb 21
4. We could easily implement a system that only allowed authors that had previously submitted work to us. That would effectively ban new authors, which is not acceptable. They are an essential part of this ecosystem and our future.
clarkesworld
@clarkesworld
Feb 21
5. The people causing the problem are from outside the SF/F community. Largely driven in by "side hustle" experts making claims of easy money with ChatGPT. They are driving this and deserve some of the disdain shown to the AI developers.
clarkesworld
@clarkesworld
Feb 21
6. Our guidelines already state that we don't want "AI" written or assisted works. They don't care. A checkbox on a form won't stop them. They just lie.
clarkesworld
@clarkesworld
Feb 21
7. If you want to support the magazine, the best thing to do is subscribe. Anything we do to fight this will cost us in time or money to acquire tools and with us losing Amazon as a subscription retailer later this year, the timing couldn't be worse. clarkesworldmagazine.com/sub…
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Kris MacLellan 🫐
@KrisMacLellan
Feb 20
Replying to @clarkesworld
Damn I just discovered Clarkesworld. I was working on something! This sucks
clarkesworld
@clarkesworld
Feb 20
We'll be open again.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
@ESYudkowsky
Feb 21
Replying to @clarkesworld
This is really bizarre. Who on earth thinks they have a chance of getting their spam submission paid for by a human editor? The technology is simply not that advanced!
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Gwenda Bond (MR & MRS WITCH is out now! 🧹🔮)
@Gwenda
Feb 20
Replying to @clarkesworld
Blergh.
Lindy Ryan is updates only
@lindyryanwrites
Feb 20
Replying to @clarkesworld
In the same boat with a new antho call.
bɪɡ-wərm 👨🏿‍💻
@YUMconfig
Feb 21
Replying to @clarkesworld
Since this tweet went viral and it is my first time hearing of this space. I may use my creative writing skills to write a short story in my free time and at some point down the road work on a submission. Such a shame AI has infected the writing game, I was unaware of the level.
Dorothea Brooke
@Fatalisme_actif
Feb 21
Replying to @clarkesworld
I think AI tools should keep a record of the text they have generated and make it public, so submissions can be checked against a public library of AI-generated texts.