I am unaware of this happening, and a cursory google search has turned up no evidence. I guess there's still a month left, but I doubt this will happen in 2024.

The best example of something resembling this that I could find is from this NYT podcast, where they showed two stories (only 1k words so wouldn't even qualify) side by side and concluded that the AI generated one was still quite obviously AI-gen and also wasn't great, although they remained optimistic that in the future this might not be the case. They certainly didn't read it for pure entertainment, apart from to enjoy the contrast with a human-written story:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/opinion/curtis-sittenfeld-chatgpt-summer-beach-story.html

@AntonMakiievskyi how do you plan on resolving this? If there's any AI-gen story published online with 1000 hits? How do you define "for pure entertainment"? Like, if 1000 people read it for entertainment not knowing it's AI-gen? Or would it count as a novelty thing, if 1000 people read a short story published in the context of "look, the AI wrote a short story, isn't it interesting?"

I acknowledge that I haven't thought through how to resolve this market fairly. My intention was to resolve it based on blinded judgment by readers, meaning that people shouldn't know that the story was written by AI. If there was some fiction read by 1000+ users that was later revealed to be AI generated - that would be a clear win

Gotcha! So an unambiguously "low-quality" story that happened to be generated by AI and was generating interest purely by nature of it being AI-gen wouldn't qualify?

Yes it wouldn't. There have possibly been such stories already: e.g. if some reporter would quote the story and say - "take a look at how terrible and inconsistent this writing is", 1000+ people may easily read it.

I think this criteria is flawed

• people would read it just because of the novely that it's written by AI, not necessarily because it's high quality.

• people need to read it to tell if it's high quality or not. What if all 1000 people that read the story think it's trash ?