[Reptur]

My question is, what is the difference between this and those who just pay ghost writers to write a story about what they instruct for submission?

If the contents is exactly what the person submitting intends, what's the big deal?

[meheleventyone]

Volume primarily. They showed a graph of how many submissions they’ve had to ban. It was a trickle due to plagiarism etc. and now it’s several orders of magnitude more. Their submission criteria also explicitly forbids AI generated work.

[karaterobot]

Sounds like it's a combination of not wanting to deal with the number of submissions increasing every month, a philosophical stance of wanting to support serious, human writers rather than people trying to make a quick buck, and perhaps some trepidation about the legality/ethics involved (since they use the word "plagiarize" in the article).

[vinyl7]

I doubt AI can actually write captivating stories. Sure it can string mostly coherent sentences together, but it can't develop complex story archs