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Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher (www.404media.co)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He gave them permission to use the social fabric as TP and that's what they're doing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Yikes but vivid word picture you painted there

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Combined with social media spaces that refused to shut that shit down immediately because it was too profitable to.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

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.