Hey-Ho, Tenebrous Culto,
You’ve probably heard more about the impending threats of Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, ChatGPT, and the like than your head can possibly contain, and now it’s all leaking out your ears and staining your nice new shirt.
But did you know this technology is being used to actively steal from artists and writers to create soulless, rip-off work that no one owns the rights to and therefore, no one needs to get paid for? Particularly the original artists and writers?
Well, as usual, we’ve got more outrage than we do brains, and we’re in the process of releasing a special edition magazine to raise money for artist rights and defense. But first we need some fellow generous, outraged folks to help us raise money to pay the contributors.
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Read on for the full scoop:
THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE ALGORITHM: a special edition dark speculative fiction magazine concerning humanity's rage against the devaluing of the light.
All proceeds from the sale of this publication—every cent remaining after printing, shipping, and taxes—will be donated to organizations that fight for the rights of human artists and pursue the regulation and limitation of machine-generation in the arts. Currently proposed:
European Guild of Artificial Intelligence Regulation
Note: we will accept proposals for other organizations and poll the contributors to decide which best suit our goals.
CURRENTLY RAISING FUNDS: All funds raised at this time will be used to pay the contributors to this publication. The editorial team and all other administrative costs are being volunteered. If more funds are raised than necessary, or if contributors waive their fee, that money will be forwarded to the above organizations.
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SUBMISSIONS: Submissions will be open as soon as we have raised enough funds to pay a reasonable rate for original fiction, poetry, reprints, comics, and art.
Will be looking for: Dark speculative fiction stories, poetry, comics, illustrations, haikus, etc. at the meeting point between humanity and technology.
Fiction: up to 3500 words.
Comics: 1-3 pages; B&W/gray tones only.
Art/Illustration: open to both original and licensed; B&W/gray tones only.
Payment: YES. Amount to be determined based on fundraising.
Themes include but not limited to: humanism, machine-generation dangers, encroaching machine rule, algorithm overload, the chaotic crash point between the human mind and machine limitations, anticapitalism, advertising overload, self-destruction, the violence and humanity of creation, philosophy.
GENRES: Weird Horror, Dark SF, Tech-Horror, Post-Apoc, Eco, Cosmic, Slipstream, Dark Lit
We emphatically welcome marginalized and first-time authors and artists. We emphatically do not welcome any machine-generated content.
ALSO LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS: If you’re willing to support or promote this project, reach out to tenebrouspress@gmail.com. We’re always looking for reviewers, podcasters, booksellers, blurbers, and anyone with marketing and promotional capabilities.
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Damn the machines.
Hail the Human. And all their ugly, imperfect, glorious ways.
Hail New Weird Horror.
Hail the Tenebrous Cult.
Matt & Alex