Sci-fi mag pauses submissions amid flood of AI-generated short stories
I think this is an under appreciated symptom of a much larger problem, accelerated shit production.<p>I&#x27;ve observed that markets are really bad at selecting for quality. The &quot;invisible&quot; hand is driven by <i>price</i> and so the production of &quot;equivalent&quot; products at a lower price does two things;<p>1) It consumes product demand from quality insensitive consumers (the whole &#x27;sucking the oxygen out of the eco system problem.&#x27;)<p>2) It takes the margin support that those people provided out of the pipeline, leaving only the folks who are quality focused as the market.<p>I have complained about this in the past with respect to personal computer hardware. I (and others) have used the term &quot;crapitalism&quot; to describe the hollowing out of the market by the flood of poor quality products.<p>With technology that is pretty easy to do by substituting &quot;work alike&quot; but less expensive parts, these work in the short time and then fail in terms of lifetime or drift over time specifications.<p>Now we have &quot;cheap creativity&quot; in the form of prompt directed creative works. I expect that we&#x27;ll see a flood of self published romance novels on Kindle (even at 0.99&#x2F;each you need perhaps a dozen sales to cover your time investment) Stories that speak at only one level (the constructions of the plot and the actions of the characters) then swamp the market and more nuanced stories or works will not be sold because of the money spent on these which isn&#x27;t available to spend on better works.<p>I think this will be a huge legacy for these technologies and I don&#x27;t think history will look favorably on it, but one can never know right?