August 10
AI and Creative Writing – Do Androids Dream of Winning a Hugo?
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About The Event
Via Glasgow Worldcon:
There has been a surge in self-published e-books written (largely) by ChatGPT whilst some magazine editors report being swamped by AI-generated stories. For now, these are easily identifiable and generally of poor quality. However, will a time come when AI-generated fiction is indistinguishable from human-generated stories and of a standard people might actually want to read? Should we accept that this is inevitable or resist the rise of AI fiction? And how do we resist?
About the Speakers & Authors:
Lauren Beukes is the award-winning South African author of six novels, a short story collection and NYT-best-selling graphic novels, including Zoo City which won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle, The Shining Girls, now a major AppleTV show with Elisabeth Moss, and, most recently, the reality-bending mother-daughter-dreamworm novel, Bridge. Her work has been translated into 25 languages and she’s also worked in kids animation, TV scriptwriting and directed an award-winning documentary.
Erik M Johnson is a short story author and has been creating stories since he could read and write. Encouraged by high-school writing and literature teachers, he decided to become a professional author one day. That day, as it turns out, just happened to be over thirty five years later. He is now threatening to write a novel. He enjoys public speaking on panels because he can carry on and on and people are less likely to run away.
Erik has been published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact (a fact that is still mindboggling to Erik) and graduated Taos Toolbox.
Erik currently lives in the Boston area, but has not yet been to Arkham, Massachusetts.
Erik thinks referring to himself in the third person is strange and is getting tired of starting sentences with ‘Erik.’
Anna Ziegelhof is a science fiction and horror writer originally from Germany, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her background is in social science and humanities research, linguistics, and recently tech (Research and Development in voice AI). Her short fiction can be found in numerous anthologies and magazines, among others The Horror Library, Flametree Press, Luna Station, and Shoreline of Infinity. She particularly enjoys quiet stories exploring darker aspects of the creaturely experience.
Neil Clarke (neil-clarke.com) is the multi-award-winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine and over a dozen anthologies, including the Best Science Fiction of the Year series. An twelve-time finalist and the 2022/2023 winner of the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form, he is also the four-time winner of the Chesley Award for Best Art Director. In 2019, Clarke received the SFWA Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award for distinguished contributions to the science fiction and fantasy community. He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and two sons.
Jason Sanford is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who’s also a passionate advocate for fellow authors, creators, and fans, in particular through reporting in his Genre Grapevine column (for which he is a four-time finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer). He’s also published dozens of stories in magazines such as Apex Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Interzone, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies along with appearances in a number of “year’s best” anthologies and The New Voices of Science Fiction. His first novel Plague Birds was a finalist for both the 2022 Nebula Award and the 2022 Philip K. Dick Award. Born and raised in the American South, Jason’s previous experience includes work as an archaeologist and as a Peace Corps Volunteer. His website is www.jasonsanford.com.