AI-generated text is overwhelming institutions, setting off a no-win 'arms race' with AI detectors

In 2023, the science fiction literary magazine Clarkesworld stopped accepting new submissions because so many were generated by artificial intelligence. Near as the editors could tell, many submitters pasted the magazine's detailed story guidelines into an AI and sent in the results. And they weren't alone. Other fiction magazines have also reported a high number of AI-generated submissions.