Literary magazine chases fake authors who write with ChatGPT or other AIs

The hunt for artificial authors is open.

an American science fiction magazine, announced on Tuesday that it has banned hundreds of authors after receiving a flood of stories written by artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots.

Neil Clarke, the magazine's editor, told his Twitter followers that he banned more than 500 authors in February due to

Before the advent of text-based AIs such as ChatGPT, sometimes referred to as "chatbots" or "virtual assistants", capable of writing text in fluent language and in various styles, Clarksworld banned only a handful of authors each month, most often for plagiarism, assured Neil Clarke.

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(authors who nevertheless use AI to produce a text, editor's note.)

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No permanent solution to the problem has yet been found.

The rise since this winter of AIs capable of producing entire texts in impeccable form – despite still frequent factual errors, on the substance of the subjects covered – raises various fears, in particular with regard to plagiarism and cheating in exams.

The Californian start-up OpenAI, which develops ChatGPT, benefits from the financial support of Microsoft, which has injected several billion dollars and hopes to revolutionize research on the Internet.