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One side effect of unlimited content-creation machines—generative AI—is unlimited content.

On Monday, the editor of the renowned sci-fi publication Clarkesworld Magazine announced that he had temporarily closed story submissions due to a massive increase in machine-generated stories sent to the publication.

In a graph shared on Twitter, Clarkesworld editor Neil Clarke tallied the number of banned writers submitting plagiarized or machine-generated stories.

The numbers totaled 500 in February, up from just over 100 in January and a low baseline of around 25 in October 2022.

The rise in banned submissions roughly coincides with the release of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022.

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