Moderator Martha Brockenbrough asks the panel if they are receiving AI generated submissions and if so, how are those handled?
KAIT: Most agencies and editors are now including official stances and clauses about not using AI.
Kait has started seeing more submissions with AI, and while some state their AI usage outright, Kait can still recognize AI-generated ones—most obviously from writers who think they need to include art to submit a picturebook manuscript. Kait reiterates that is NOT part of the submitting author's job. It's happened enough that Kait now has a form rejection for these AI submissions. While Kait is all for technology taking over dishes, laundry, and taxes she still prefers humans writing and making art.
KAIT: I don't want AI to touch any part of your creative process.
The panel talks about how any content inputted into an AI tool like Claude or ChatGPT is no longer work under your copyright and is also used as training material by that LLM. Kait reminds us AI is technically a plagiarizing tool that has been scraping from published creators who have not been paid, credited, or given consent.
She encourages people who want to use AI to write or illustrate to ask themselves why they don't feel like they are capable of creating it themselves? Kait says it's okay to not know answers and struggle with your creating, the real writing is in the revising.
Kait adds there is an additional moral dilemma to using AI: The huge environmental strain of using LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude which run on the loud, water-guzzling data centers that are being built without appropriate environmental regulations (if any) overwhelmingly in poorer regions of countries where its residents have no political standing or funding to push back or stop the construction or pollution. Kait likens it to shopping on Amazon or Shein, it's up to you how comfortable you are contributing to known causes of the global climate crisis.
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