This is assuming that any of the AI submissions are good enough an actual human reader would read them and think "yeah, this is worth publishing", which is a major assumption. I mean, the guy who won the art contest in Rakuen's first example rejected, by his estimation, 900 duds, giving the AI a success rate of 0.1% (and he also further edited the picture himself). And that was a static image, while short stories are sustained works, meaning the 0.1% chance has to occur repeatedly.
The problem isn't recognizing the AI writing, because whether a human wrote unpublishable crap or an AI wrote unpublishable crap, it's still not getting published; the problem is that, once again, these people don't seem to realize that reading a submission takes time. Like, if they sent in one AI story at a time, LIKE A NORMAL PERSON, and waited until they were rejected before trying again, I'm sure these people would still annoy the fuck out publishers, but since they went with the spam model (which, note, the even the static art contest guys were smart enough not to do), they're ruining it for everyone.
Like, I suppose the plan is to get an AI story published, and then use that as a selling point ("Look, our AI fooled a fiction editor!"), but this strategy is just stupid for doing that. Like, they don't understand how publishing works. Do they not understand people read submissions? And even if they're accepted, they're often edited? Which means AI will not be the sole author, wherever you stand on the "copyright/scraping" debate. A human will be involved.
This is assuming that any of the AI submissions are good enough an actual human reader would read them and think "yeah, this is worth publishing", which is a major assumption. I mean, the guy who won the art contest in Rakuen's first example rejected, by his estimation, 900 duds, giving the AI a success rate of 0.1% (and he also further edited the picture himself). And that was a static image, while short stories are sustained works, meaning the 0.1% chance has to occur repeatedly.
The problem isn't recognizing the AI writing, because whether a human wrote unpublishable crap or an AI wrote unpublishable crap, it's still not getting published; the problem is that, once again, these people don't seem to realize that reading a submission takes time. Like, if they sent in one AI story at a time, LIKE A NORMAL PERSON, and waited until they were rejected before trying again, I'm sure these people would still annoy the fuck out publishers, but since they went with the spam model (which, note, the even the static art contest guys were smart enough not to do), they're ruining it for everyone.
Like, I suppose the plan is to get an AI story published, and then use that as a selling point ("Look, our AI fooled a fiction editor!"), but this strategy is just stupid for doing that. Like, they don't understand how publishing works. Do they not understand people read submissions? And even if they're accepted, they're often edited? Which means AI will not be the sole author, wherever you stand on the "copyright/scraping" debate. A human will be involved.