He tried to use AI detection tools, but found them missing. (A detector published by Openai, the company behind Chatgpt, only works on 1 time out of 4.) He said that unknown phrase turns in the submissions of authors based outside the United States whose first language is not English can sometimes trip of such tools. “There is a bias inherent in these detectors,” said Clarke.
Clarke thinks that rapid AI progress in the coming years will make these detection tools completely ineffective. “The AI will write to a level such that you will not be able to detect it against a normal human,” he said.
At least one person responsible for creating generative AI tools shares Clarke’s concerns. ATIT GUPTA is the co -founder of Sudowrite, an AI tool for writers who helps modifications, generates conspiracy ideas and completes entire sentences and paragraphs. In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Gupta, who is also a science fiction author and submitted to Clarkesworld several times in the past, said that what the magazine was going through was “terrible” and “really disappointing”.
He said that something like Chatgpt, which generates large blocks of text from zero, would be a better tool for generating science fiction submissions than Sudowrite, which is mainly used for stories that are already being written. He stressed that sudowrite caps the number of stories you can create using the tool in a single day. “But if you come and write like three stories a day, I don’t think we can stop this use case,” said Gupta. “It looks too much like a gray area between legitimate and illegitimate use.”
Clarke called the whole domain of the generative AI “an ethical and legal gray zone”.
“Who owns these [submitted] Work? “He asked. The person did not write it. The chatbot does not have it.” He also underlined the lack of transparency in the data on which these tools are formed. A trio of artists continued Manufacturers of popular AI images generators, saying that the tools had been trained on their art without their permission.
But ultimately, Clarke said, the real problem is not how good the text generated by AI is. The problem is their speed. “We were buried,” he said. “I did not expect a bunch of lateral agitation gurus to eliminate our submission system.” Meanwhile, he said: “The irony of being a magazine that publishes science fiction which is flooded with stories written by AI is not lost for me.”
