A dollar isn't nearly enough to deter most of the crowd that's flooding Clarkesworld -- and much more than that would start to be a real burden for submissions from non-Western countries which they're actively soliciting. Current detection tech is too unreliable to trust and too expensive for them to run in bulk. And going through the submissions pile is already a tedious and thankless job.
(BTW, part of their problem is that some sleazy "get rich quick with ChatGPT" guides were explicitly telling people to have it write some crap story and submit the result to Clarkesworld -- which is ridiculous. The mag is quite selective, and the fraction of sweated-over-by-human submissions that get publication, and a check, was already quite low.)
What if I told you that the best way to make a quick buck with chatgpt is to write a bunch of crappy articles about how to make money with chatgpt, then stick ads on them.
https://twitter.com/clarkesworld/status/1628049689374334980
A dollar isn't nearly enough to deter most of the crowd that's flooding Clarkesworld -- and much more than that would start to be a real burden for submissions from non-Western countries which they're actively soliciting. Current detection tech is too unreliable to trust and too expensive for them to run in bulk. And going through the submissions pile is already a tedious and thankless job.
(BTW, part of their problem is that some sleazy "get rich quick with ChatGPT" guides were explicitly telling people to have it write some crap story and submit the result to Clarkesworld -- which is ridiculous. The mag is quite selective, and the fraction of sweated-over-by-human submissions that get publication, and a check, was already quite low.)