I am more sympathetic to the angry Reddit user. I think their response is valid and could be easily directed at the the anonymous "they" in the screed: i.e. the paper's owners. I have canceled my subscriptions to the WaPo and the L.A. Times over editorial decisions made by their owners. I see the inclusion of AI slop as an editorial error. At least for now, there are still humans who own these media, and I think they bear the full responsibility in the end for what goes into their publications. (edited for minor typos)
Have been for a while now. Several small press and magazines have died in the deluge of machine-written submissions since 2022. It's a struggle for Amazon to keep KU from paying fake writers who rent bots to read their fake books at a scale big enough to profit. One of my clients who was querying agents earlier this year (got one!) noticed that many agents have taken the second-mover position: they wait for someone else in Query Tracker to request a full from a prospect before they do the same, which essentially offloads wading through the bottomless slush pile to their competitors.
The description of "The Last Algorithm" gives me a wry sense of amusement. Its supposed plot is literally about AI becoming sentient and controlling world events. A bit on-the-nose, eh?
I am more sympathetic to the angry Reddit user. I think their response is valid and could be easily directed at the the anonymous "they" in the screed: i.e. the paper's owners. I have canceled my subscriptions to the WaPo and the L.A. Times over editorial decisions made by their owners. I see the inclusion of AI slop as an editorial error. At least for now, there are still humans who own these media, and I think they bear the full responsibility in the end for what goes into their publications. (edited for minor typos)
Why don’t they take this one step further and ask AI to write the made-up books? Problem solved!
And then we'll train other robots to actually READ the damn things, because who's got the time, amirite?
Gawd, they're gonna do that, aren't they?
Have been for a while now. Several small press and magazines have died in the deluge of machine-written submissions since 2022. It's a struggle for Amazon to keep KU from paying fake writers who rent bots to read their fake books at a scale big enough to profit. One of my clients who was querying agents earlier this year (got one!) noticed that many agents have taken the second-mover position: they wait for someone else in Query Tracker to request a full from a prospect before they do the same, which essentially offloads wading through the bottomless slush pile to their competitors.
"On me 100 percent and I'm completely embarrassed." That's an AI generated response
"Oh, I'm sorry I went off on that rant about White genocide when you only asked for Reggie Jackson's batting average."
Who reads books anymore? Who uses words, when you can use emojis?
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The description of "The Last Algorithm" gives me a wry sense of amusement. Its supposed plot is literally about AI becoming sentient and controlling world events. A bit on-the-nose, eh?
just wow.