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New Medium Advice: Publish 3000 Articles a Day
Medium HQ issues new guidelines to battle AI terror threat
From tomorrow, Medium will advise all authors to submit at least 3000 articles a day.
It comes as competition increases from AI. One Medium writer recently got an AI program to write a million articles, and then published them all on the same day.
Unable to withstand the sudden input of convoluted and confused thinking, Medium crashed, causing severe disruption to its users.
Many writers complained they’d lost earnings running into many tens of cents. While one, who was later found hanging by a virtual rope, said he’d lost a whole dollar during the outage.
The writer responsible for the chaos was later found to be a robot of alien origin, who went by the unimaginative name of iBOT. Formal proceedings can’t be taken against the robot as its email address is out of this world. But the account has been reported.
This has prompted Medium to issue new guidelines on what authors are expected to produce. Before there was no minimum or maximum daily amount. You could happily glide through your Medium career writing one or two granola recipes a year, and get away with it.
Not any more. The rules of engagement have changed. We’re now at war!
Humans vs A.I.
A literary arms race to see who controls Medium, and therefore humanity.
The New Cold War
Many see this as the ultimate sequel to the Alien vs Predator movie franchise.
Whoever wins, takes the Earth!
If AI wins, we’ll be reading meaningless copy for the rest of our lives. If Humans win, we’ll be reading meaningless copy for the rest of our lives.
Many fear that human writers and AI will destroy each other, leaving the door open for POETS, who’ll flood Medium with eight-line stanzas.
Something must be done.
Therefore, from tomorrow, all writers must submit a minimum of 3000 articles per day. No images. Just cold meaningless text.
Furthermore, all pieces MUST be submitted via The Pub. A virtually unknown publication run by renegade Medium entrepreneur Smillew Rahcuef.
Due to the publication's low editorial standards, pieces can be published almost immediately without having to go through any editing process.
It’s hoped that by pumping Medium full of poorly written articles once again, it can stave off the attack by AI. While at the same time wipe out poetry once and for all.
It’s a win-win situation. But it needs everyone’s support. So get writing.
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