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Title: Hugo Administrators Resign in Wake of ChatGPT Controversy
Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/06/0139251/h...
"Another year, yet another Hugo Awards-adjacent controversy?" writes
Gizmodo's Cheryl Eddy, reporting that three key organizers of the 2025
Seattle Worldcon resigned after backlash over the use of ChatGPT to vet
program participants. From the report: In a post on Bluesky co-signed by Hugo
administrator Nicholas Whyte, deputy Hugo administrator Esther MacCallum-
Stewart, and World Science Fiction Society division head Cassidy, the trio
announced they were resigning from their roles ahead of the Seattle event,
which takes place in August. "We want to reaffirm that no LLMs or generative
AI have been used in the Hugo Awards process at any stage," the statement
read in part, which might turn the heads of anyone who is a) interested in
the Hugos, but b) not up on the latest controversy. However, plenty of people
in the community are well aware of what's been going on. A quick journey to
the blog File 770 will bring you up to speed, as will a visit to Seattle
Worldcon 2025's own site, which on April 30 shared a post clarifying exactly
what role AI played in the upcoming event. [...] However, as File 770 pointed
out, the damage has apparently already been done: the use of ChatGPT in any
capacity in connection to Worldcon created a furor on social media. It also
inspired at least one Hugo nominee to remove their book from contention: Yoon
Ha Lee, whose Moonstorm was named a Lodestar Award finalist, which honors YA
releases. In a May 1 post on Bluesky, the author linked to the April 30
Worldcon blog post noted above, and noted he was withdrawing the title from
consideration. Then, in a post shared today responding to File 770's latest
post announcing the resignations, the author wrote �oeAll respect and I'm
grateful to them for their work, sorry [things] came to this pass." Seattle
Worldcon 2025 takes place August 13-17; the Hugo Awards will be handed out
August 16.
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