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The publisher of a small imprint of roleplaying games magazines/speculative fiction shuts down after 22 years because their submissions have been flooded with AI to the extent they cannot wade through them:

“The problem with AI is the people who use AI. These are people who think their ‘ideas’ are more important than the actual craft of writing, so they churn out all these ‘ideas’ and enter their idea prompts and think the output is a story.”

404media.co/bards-and-sages-cl

404 Media · Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher“The problem with AI is the people who use AI. They don't respect the written word,” the founder of Bards and Sages said.
Papa Quark

@jasonkoebler this has been bothering me with AI from the beginning. If you didn’t bother to write it why should I bother to read it?

@papaquark @jasonkoebler If you plan to use generative AI, quit and send me your AI prompt instead, because your prompt contained all the content already.

@ahltorp @papaquark @jasonkoebler I saw that suggested as an art project: Use generative AI to write a novel. Then, don't publish the novel, publish the prompts.