Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher
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A small publisher for speculative fiction and roleplaying games is shuttering after 22 years, and the “final straw,” its founder said, is an influx of AI-generated submissions.
In a notice posted to the site, founder Julie Ann Dawson wrote that effective March 6, she was winding down operations to focus on her health and “day job” that’s separate from the press. “All of these issues impacted my decision. However, I also have to confess to what may have been the final straws. AI...and authors behaving badly,” she wrote.
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DJT syndrome, they were always there but he told them it was good to be that way. And that's exactly what they all wanted to hear.
He gave them permission to use the social fabric as TP and that's what they're doing.
Yikes but vivid word picture you painted there
Combined with social media spaces that refused to shut that shit down immediately because it was too profitable to.
Even worse, negativity increases engagement on social media. So instead of shutting it down, it's more profitable for them and the algorithms encourage it.
It's this. I know I've become angrier, bitter, and even more misanthropic because of the uptick of people that have been massive pieces of shit since he took office. I think I developed a "fuck you" attitude as a self defence mechanism and I've lost all my empathy.