Another day, another email from a cranky "AI" supporter having a temper tantrum over the fact that I'll ban them for using their favorite toy in our house. We do not allow the use of generative "AI" at all. That isn't going to change and you aren't being oppressed by our policy. - ThreadSky

clarkesworldmagazine.com • 58 days ago

Another day, another email from a cranky "AI" supporter having a temper tantrum over the fact that I'll ban them for using their favorite toy in our house. We do not allow the use of generative "AI" at all. That isn't going to change and you aren't being oppressed by our policy.

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colink.bsky.social•57 days ago

Please stick to your guns, and don't let them overwhelm you. We want to read and see art, not algorithmic artifice.

themissinglink97.bsky.social•57 days ago

Thank you for your integrity

newsitenewme.bsky.social•57 days ago

I’m a big ai booster, I even work with ai for a living, but even I don’t know if current tech ai can write a coherent and interesting 10k word story.

And the reason I don’t know is because I can’t imagine sitting down and reading 10k words written by AI.

kestra.bsky.social•58 days ago

Thanks for being the change I want to see in the world.

stlemke.com•58 days ago

They could just start their own magazine exclusively with AI generated stories

But not even they want to read that

tir2.bsky.social•58 days ago

worse still: those who want to read that, can do it right now, using the plagiarism machine themselves to get whatever subpar story they want with whatever mediocre art they want. that's what happens when your "craft" is something anyone can do with no work.

tir2.bsky.social•58 days ago

like, I can make a regular cheese sandwich at home. I don't need to go to your regular cheese sandwich restaurant.

comptonscatter.bsky.social•57 days ago

bleh, I wish.

I have a story I want to *read* that nobody's writing so I have to do it. But so far the AI writing is below my extremely low personal pulp standard.

kaijarayne.bsky.social•57 days ago

❤️

travelinbrian.bsky.social•57 days ago

You've probably sprained your eyeballs from rolling them so hard at AI evangelists.

frytiger.bsky.social•57 days ago

Stick to your guns!

otterpopyt.bsky.social•57 days ago

Bless ya Clarksworld! You guys are troopers for fighting against this so hard for so long!

lorendavidson.bsky.social•57 days ago

Good for you. If someone can't be bothered to write the story, nobody can be bothered to *read* it.

prbbly.bsky.social•57 days ago

I admire your commitment to not using autocorrect and taking a hard stance against people that use it. I'd also love to know what os you posted this on since you banned ios, android and windows from your house.
Do you make the bank do your deposits manually so they don't have to use the reader?

richieryan.bsky.social•57 days ago

Outa curiosity how often do a few people turn in almost identical stories because they gave the AI the same prompts.

clarkesworldmagazine.com•57 days ago

It can happen. There's one story outline in particular that I've seen many dozens of times.

geologyjohnson.bsky.social•57 days ago

Can you share the outline? I'm super interested in seeing what the most common one is. I am guessing something like Starwars a new hope?

clarkesworldmagazine.com•57 days ago

It tends to be about scientists saving the world from an environmental collapse. Heavy on character descriptions but shortcuts through plot and the solution. The world is saved and the ending is the award ceremony from A New Hope. Good guess.

richieryan.bsky.social•57 days ago

My disbelief was no longer suspended at the idea a genius scientist would go to a huge award ceremony. Ones I’ve known are reclusive beans.

ryanhumphrey.bsky.social•57 days ago

There’s a story hook. Saving the world was simple. Conspiring to trick the scientists into actually showing up to collect their medals was the hard part…

geologyjohnson.bsky.social•57 days ago

Might be discipline dependent. I'm fairly introverted, but a lot of my geo colleagues are turbo extraverts.

geologyjohnson.bsky.social•57 days ago

Interesting! My next guess would have been space marine action, or monster of the week aliens-lite. Environmental collapse would have been lower in my top ten but it makes a lot of sense.

richieryan.bsky.social•57 days ago

My guess is it’s a little more specific than The Hero’s Journey, like incriminatingly so.

This isn’t about tropes or stock characters.

dextermikeson.bsky.social•57 days ago

Thank you. I don't want to read plagiarism script slop.

geekyjp.bsky.social•57 days ago

Thank you for being a real one

joycereynoldsward.bsky.social•57 days ago

many thanks for holding firm on your policy.

graythebruce.bsky.social•57 days ago

Thank you for taking a principled stand. I can turn on ChatGPT and have it create a whole magazine all on my own, for free, if I want to read hallucinated slop. I read magazines to encounter the world through the eyes of other human beings, and AI is useless for that.

rikunkmr.bsky.social•57 days ago

Love the big skeleton divine blast energy (replace nsfw with AI in the pic obviously)

https://bsky.app/profile/kanraindrop.bsky.social/post/3law7bxlwps2e

raeloverde.bsky.social•58 days ago

bless you for your service

linardos.bsky.social•58 days ago

Keep doing the good work, we're all behind you ✊

isobelstarling.bsky.social•57 days ago

Keep going! I wish other publishers would work as diligently against AI and not throw their authors work into the meat grinder for a few dollars extra.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/05/black-inc-melbourne-publisher-ai-agreements-writers-anger

rosemarykirstein.bsky.social•57 days ago

Clarksworld is a shining light.

saradangulo.bsky.social•57 days ago

“Do you know how long I spent crafting that prompt?!?” 🙄

gabino.bsky.social•57 days ago

🖤

grigorylukin.bsky.social•57 days ago

Thank you for being a light in the darkness on this. :)

bethmeacham.bsky.social•57 days ago

Amen.

filamena.bsky.social•58 days ago

Thank you.

duchess-van-hoof.bsky.social•57 days ago

Integrity is always appreciated.

adorableoddities.bsky.social•56 days ago

“But but but.. I shouldn’t have to put in time and effort!!!”

booktweeting.bsky.social•57 days ago

they can have computers read their computer-written story

ouinne.bsky.social•57 days ago

Thank you I love it ❤️

davidwritten.bsky.social•57 days ago

What suprise me is that they put so little effort in their stories, and act childish when rejected.
And then you have people who slave on their story, making it their baby, get rejected and move on.

thechrisglass.bsky.social•58 days ago

Do they think people can't tell?

grigorylukin.bsky.social•57 days ago

Category error: they don't think. 🤡

ptbooks.bsky.social•57 days ago

Good. I can’t stand looking at AI, it always makes me sad and angry and disinterested in whatever it’s trying to sell me.

craigschaeferbooks.com•57 days ago

This is horribly oppressive to people who *checks notes* want to get paid for telling a machine to crank out crap literally nobody, not even them, wants to read. You're being terribly cruel to the lazy asshole demographic.

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