Get ready to pay a premium for human generated content
Generative AI is already ruining the fun for some people
I am one of the most excited people about the rapid growth of AI technologies, but it’s not all fun and games. Six months ago, I was saying it as a joke, but today I think it’s going to happen much sooner than I imagined, human-generated content is going to be a premium product compared to what Generative AI will deliver.
Clarkesworld, one of the most prestigious publishers of science fiction short stories has stopped accepting submissions from authors after a tsunami of AI-generated pitches overwhelmed its editorial team.
They are one of the few publishers that accept open submissions for short stories from new writers and they pay for that content. But in the last months, “get rich quick” authors have flooded them with AI-generated content.
Founding editor Neil Clarke went to Twitter to complain that from an average of 10 submissions per month flagged as plagiarised, January saw 100 rejected submissions and in February (to date) 500 submissions were rejected and their authors got banned. The numbers skyrocketed after the launch of ChatGPT.
So, at this time, the publisher simply cannot fulfill its purpose and it is heading toward a path of unsustainability. This is also bad news for legit writers that have no way to get published with Clarkesworld.
This is just one case with someone that went public, I think many editors are starting to feel the effects of AI. The need for an accurate and fast way to detect Ai-generated content is becoming critical and at this point, there’s no clear solution.
Same thing on Amazon
According to Reuters, there were over 200 e-books in Amazon’s Kindle store as of mid-February listing ChatGPT as an author or co-author and I expect that this number going to rise at lightning speed in the next few months.
What amazes me is that there is even a sub-genre on Amazon: Books about using ChatGPT, written entirely by ChatGPT. This is just people that were honest, Amazon does not actually require authors to disclose if their book is written by a computer.
Also, I’m seeing more and more courses online on how to make money with ChatGPT.
Everybody is trying to make a quick buck and the bubble grows
Obviously, the market is going to be flooded and real authors will suffer. I think we’re way past the point of no return and it’s worrying. Money drives people crazy and this rush is on a scale no one can imagine. To be continued…