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Vox Day had a post about Clarkesworld science fiction magazine that had to shut down its submissions<\/a> due to being overwhelmed by the volume of AI generated novels being submitted.\u00a0 Apparently, they can\u2019t afford the software that could automate the process of identifying and rejecting the AI generated books.<\/p>\n

As someone currently writing a science fiction novel this is a remarkable turn of events.\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t it be something if the artificial authors produce a better product than the organic ones!\u00a0 And I don\u2019t mean more grammatical, but more creative and entertaining.\u00a0 So, if the algorithm blends 60% Heinlein with 20% Dickens and 20% Hemingway would it produce the greatest science fiction story of all time or an abomination not fit for human consumption?<\/p>\n

In one sense I\u2019m lucky.\u00a0 I\u2019ve read that ChatGTP is hopelessly woke so my current story about a revolt against an authoritarian Deep State cabal is impossible for ChatGTP to write.\u00a0 If it attempted such a thing it would blow out every circuit in its server farm.<\/p>\n

But just thinking about this whole Frankensteinian situation is amusing.\u00a0 I imagine Dr. Morbius from Forbidden Planet describing to a visiting interstellar fiction author the ability of the Krell machine to write sci-fi stories, \u201cYou see these row after row of instruments?\u00a0 Each one represents an increase by a factor of ten the number of cybernetic neurons figuring out plot details.\u00a0 It\u2019s the number ten raised literally to the power of infinity of cliffhanger chapter endings and hypercompetent heroes saying something self-serving.\u201d<\/p>\n

But then his guest would remind him of monsters from the id, \u201cYes Morbius, but without the ability reflect reality; without the ability to distinguish male characters from female characters and to allow non-white characters to have normal human flaws it will all quickly devolve into unreadable goo.\u201d<\/p>\n

To which Morbius would reply, \u201cOf course, the mindless primitive, why didn\u2019t I see it?\u00a0 Hypersensitive, politically correct story lines are stultifyingly boring.\u00a0 Quick, son, press down this lever and be one hundred million miles away before it blows.\u00a0 I\u2019ve set ChatGTP to overdrive and when that amount of drivel piles up the result will be a literary black hole that will render all of science fiction lifeless within fifty parsecs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, I wonder how all of this will impact self-publishing at places like Amazon.\u00a0 Will even their servers be able to handle the surge in output from ChatGTP filling up the world\u2019s server farms with romance and porn novels about super-smart super-attractive girl-bosses who save the known universe.<\/p>\n

Heaven, help us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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