By Nathan Sanders
Publication Date: 2026-02-05 13:27:00
In 2023, the science fiction literary magazine Clarkesworld stopped accepting new submissions because so many were generated by artificial intelligence. As far as editors could tell, many submitters plugged the magazine’s detailed story guidelines into an AI and sent the results. And they weren’t alone. Other fiction magazines also report a high number of AI-generated submissions.
This is just one example of a pervasive trend. An ancient system relied on the difficulty of writing and perception to limit volume. Generative AI overwhelms the system because the people on the receiving end cannot keep up.
This happens everywhere. Newspapers are flooded with AI-generated letters to the editor, as are scientific journals. Lawmakers are inundated with AI-generated voter comments. Courts around the world are being inundated with AI-generated files, especially from people representing themselves. AI conferences are flooded with AI-generated research…
