A sci-fi magazine editor says his team are sent so many 'consistently bad' AI-generated articles that their workload has almost doubled

• Employees at a small publication say AI-powered tools are making their jobs harder.
• A magazine editor told CNN his team struggled to review the huge volume of articles generated by AI.

Employees at a small sci-fi and fantasy publication say new AI-powered tools are making their jobs harder.

People are often using them to write poor-quality articles and send them to publications for review, Neil Clarke, an editor and publisher at Clarkesworld magazine, told CNN. He said his team's workloads had almost doubled and they'd struggled to review a stream of "consistently bad" AI-generated content.

AI tools have been praised for their ability to generate human-like text and are often seen by some bosses as a way to improve productivity. But their increasing usage has caused a headache for Clarke, who told CNN that his publication had to temporarily shut down its submission form to cope with a resulting influx of submissions.

Many companies have already moved to incorporate the technology into everyday workflows. AT&T, for example, is using a ChatGPT-based tool to assist its coders and software developers with their work, as well as translate customer and employee documentation.

For jobs that involve writing for an audience, tools that can produce relatively well-written text at speed have been cited as a potential threat.

This is the case for some copywriters, for example, who claim the rise of AI-powered chatbots has put them out of work. As for journalism, some believe AI is a potential threat to reporters and editors, but others believe it can be used as a tool to help them.

However, AI-powered tools come with various issues, including a tendency to invent or "hallucinate" facts. Technology publication CNET was forced to issue a string of corrections on several articles after errors were discovered in its AI-generated articles.