Salut !

This was so interesting. I run a small pub as well and I've been inundated with ChatGPT stuff. Most of it is obvious, but some isn't. I published a movie review and at the time I thought it was genuine. It seemed slightly robotic, but the points she made were valid and there was a certain level of sarcasm and irony, a trait AI isn't noted for. Anyway, later, I discovered the writer's other work was clearly AI, so I wonder.

I left it on, so as not to cause trouble, but I'm now super vigilant, and like you said, ALL editors should be. If everyone bands together, so to speak, we can fight it. Sounds trivial considering what's happening in the world, but some things must be kept safe, otherwise what's the point!

As a side, I live in France and there has been quite a few discussions on this here as well. Has this been a problem with submissions in French, or the French literary world in general? While I work in French, I couldn't tell if a poet was written by a human or AI.

I listened to a program on France Culture on Saturday about this (Intelligence artificielle et poésie : la rime riche (radiofrance.fr). If you're interested, or anyone.