Honestly, I can't be sure. None of us can be, not anymore. Except when we obviously, terribly can. On Monday, Clarkesworld, a long-running science fiction magazine, took the unprecedented step of closing submissions to writers. Because the more than 50 submissions editor and publisher Neil Clarke had received that single day before noon? They weren't by writers. They were by AI.
Clarke wrote in a blog post, "In 15 days, we've more than doubled the total [submissions] for all of January," later sharing a graph showing over 500 submissions for the first few weeks of February alone that were, as he described it, "Plagiarism and bot-written."
