Yeah, but there’s nothing you (or anyone) can do about it.
I tried to warn against putting an AI rule in place without an enforcement mechanism, but as far as I can see, the community is 100% convinced that this is just an ordinary rule, as easy to enforce as any other. (The fact that it’s impossible to check whether text has been generated by AI doesn’t seem to worry anybody at all.)
Everyone’s heard the warnings. Like it or not, we’re just going to wing it.
And hey, maybe it’ll be easier for IFComp and Spring Thing than it was for us. (I doubt it.)
Surely you can’t mean that literally nobody will mistake human-authored work for AI. That happens constantly on larger forums/socials where strangers interact regularly.
Maybe you just mean that the IFComp committee will infallibly separate the wheat from the slop?
Speaking for myself, I’d pay good money for an infallible slop detector. But I wouldn’t trust anyone who claimed to have one, and neither should you.
Slop fighting is much harder than spam fighting, because spammers are trying to sell watches, to score backlinks, to scam people.
When people submit slop games to competitions, they have nearly the same goal as human-written authors: to entertain the player and win the competition.
We’re living in https://xkcd.com/810/ now.