Will any major science fiction short story markets lift their categorical ban on writing with LLMs by 2025?
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For the purposes of this market, I'll be tracking only five major markets for SF short fiction.

Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Asimov's Science Fiction, and Clarkesworld:

We will not consider any submissions written, developed, or assisted by these tools. Attempting to submit these works may result in being banned from submitting works in the future.

Lightspeed:

Until the ethical questions surrounding the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT for commercial purposes are resolved, we will not accept submissions that are written with—or entirely by—AI.

Uncanny Magazine:

Please note that Uncanny Magazine does not accept any submissions written with artificial intelligence or similar technologies. These submissions will be rejected, and authors will no longer be able to submit to Uncanny Magazine if they didn’t disclose that they used artificial intelligence or similar technologies for creating their submissions.

Clarifications that it's okay to get ideas from AI or an LLM don't count, nor do explicitly allowing banal things that might technically use neural networks like spellcheckers. To resolve YES, one of these markets has to allow for LLMs to be involved in some part of actually writing a story.

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Six months into the year and zero change in the submission criteria. I haven't seen any compelling LLM-based fiction experiments, which if they started to take off could end up making some sort of LLM use-case more palatable to pro mags. AI fiction just sucks right now.

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How are they assessing whether some is written by or with AI? "You know it when you see it?"

@JoshuaWilkes yeah, there has been a huge spike in obviously spammy submissions: https://neil-clarke.com/a-concerning-trend/. A reasonably competent author could use an LLM to write lots of copy and put in enough effort so it's not obvious, but genre publishing isn't that large of a world and trying to hoodwink editors is probably a bad idea

Wow, AI fiction would suck