Pretty simple, really. Require that all submissions be sent in by mail and TYPED on paper. No more digital bullshit. When an AI robot can type, then we have a problem
To Thomas F. Monteleone... AI robots CAN type, and have always been able to. My first computer was a TI-99/4a. My first "printer" was a Western Digital teletype that I rescued from military salvage. I built an interface from a 555 chip and pushed the data out through the joystick port. No dot-matrix needed. The output was identical to a typewriter because that's exactly what it IS. Later, I had a Brother typewriter with an RS-232 port. Output from the computer was literally typed. Early dedicated word processors TYPED. It's duck soup for an AI.
What do I think? I think that if you run a story through an AI to detect AI work, then maybe ... Who the hell knows?
I would honestly say that if you have policies in place for quality writing, then stick by them. Have a set way you want something turned in. A coversheet with info, a short paragraph telling what the story is about, then the manuscript being a set page size 5x9 or 6x9 or 5.25x8, double spaced, typed, word corrected, a set page length or word count, and then read each piece that comes in, before accepting or denying it. The publisher is the place that sets the rules, and then stick by the rules.
It shouldn't be that hard.
I do much the same thing every thursday for ❤Thorny Thursday🌹
Pretty simple, really. Require that all submissions be sent in by mail and TYPED on paper. No more digital bullshit. When an AI robot can type, then we have a problem
Their end is in sight.
To Thomas F. Monteleone... AI robots CAN type, and have always been able to. My first computer was a TI-99/4a. My first "printer" was a Western Digital teletype that I rescued from military salvage. I built an interface from a 555 chip and pushed the data out through the joystick port. No dot-matrix needed. The output was identical to a typewriter because that's exactly what it IS. Later, I had a Brother typewriter with an RS-232 port. Output from the computer was literally typed. Early dedicated word processors TYPED. It's duck soup for an AI.
Sooo... looks like we have a problem.
What do I think? I think that if you run a story through an AI to detect AI work, then maybe ... Who the hell knows?
I would honestly say that if you have policies in place for quality writing, then stick by them. Have a set way you want something turned in. A coversheet with info, a short paragraph telling what the story is about, then the manuscript being a set page size 5x9 or 6x9 or 5.25x8, double spaced, typed, word corrected, a set page length or word count, and then read each piece that comes in, before accepting or denying it. The publisher is the place that sets the rules, and then stick by the rules.
It shouldn't be that hard.
I do much the same thing every thursday for ❤Thorny Thursday🌹