Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 62, November 2011 by Neil Clarke

And there was never any danger of any of these being published. But I can tell you that the quality of the stories overall is quite bad. KELLY: How can you tell? How do you know it's AI?ĬLARKE: Well, we haven't been revealing the secret to how we're identifying them, largely because we don't want to help the people who are trying to get past us. We got to just close things down for now.ĬLARKE: It was increasing at such a rate that we figured that by the end of the month, we would have double the number of submissions we normally have, and that the rate it had been growing from previous months, we were concerned that we had to do something to stop it. KELLY: And this was so far outside the norm that you thought, we can't keep going. So a total of 1,200, 500 of which were written by a machine.

KELLY: When I say you have been deluged by submissions, how many are we talking?ĬLARKE: So by the time we closed on the 20, around noon, we had received 700 legitimate submissions and 500 machine-written ones.

Well, let's bring in editor-in-chief Neil Clarke. Right now, though, Clarkesworld is not accepting new submissions, and that is because they have been deluged by submissions written by artificial intelligence, AI software like ChatGPT. It has served as a launchpad for award-winning writers. It publishes sci-fi, fantasy, including big names. He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and two sons.Clarkesworld is a literary journal. His next anthology, The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Seven will published in early 2023. His anthologies include: Upgraded, Galactic Empires, Touchable Unreality, More Human than Human, The Final Frontier, Not One of Us, The Eagle has Landed, and the Best Science Fiction of the Year series. In the fifteen years since Clarkesworld Magazine launched, numerous stories that he has published have been nominated for or won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Locus, BSFA, Shirley Jackson, WSFA Small Press, and Stoker Awards.Īdditionally, Neil edits Forever-a digital-only, reprint science fiction magazine he launched in 2015. Neil is also a ten-time finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form (winning once in 2022), three-time winner of the Chesley Award for Best Art Director, and a recipient of the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award. Launched in October 2006, the online magazine has been a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine four times (winning three times), the World Fantasy Award four times (winning once), and the British Fantasy Award once (winning once). Neil Clarke is best known as the editor and publisher of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning Clarkesworld Magazine.

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 62, November 2011 by Neil Clarke