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Originally Posted by Dsharma
I get the frustration. The timing with the Writer's Strike is off, for sure. But, AI collaboration isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's a tool, like anything else. It can help spark new ideas or refine existing ones.
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Even before ChatGPT, there were lots of sites that provided writing prompts. There were also books full of writing prompts -- from print books published by traditional houses to indie books. I found these a lot more useful because they were generated by people. Even when the sites were automated (like RPG prompt sites), the suggestions came from fans and not from a bot scraping the Internet.
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Originally Posted by Dsharma
As for copyright, the law isn't entirely clear. Generally, works created by AI aren't copyrighted, but if there's human involvement, it gets murky.
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The AI tools we have now are creating "content" (eww, that word) by scraping existing things from the Internet. Some of its wordage comes from copyrighted material (such as articles on websites). Some people have learned that when you enter a sample chapter into certain sites that are supposed to just rate your text, their text is then being scraped.
That is more than murky. That is the Swamp of Sadness, and we have already lost Artax.
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Originally Posted by Dsharma
About the low pay rate...well, that's a different can of worms. Zines often operate on tight budgets, but writers definitely deserve fair compensation.
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For a magazine that has been around since 1966, they could do better. According to Duotrope, this magazine accepts voluntary "tip jar" payments as part of its submissions process.