Interactive fiction competitions open to genAI entries - 2026

[HanonO (Hanon Ondricek)]

I’ve moved some general AI discussion to an existing topic. Please reserve this topic specifically for existing or upcoming competitions and jams that solicit or permit AI as per the title: Interactive fiction competitions open to genAI entries - 2026

If you’d like to speculatively discuss how AI works generally in regards to competition entries, please participate in this topic:

AI in competitions

Are there any competitions that ban generative AI? For some reason I was under the impression that IFComp didn’t allow it, but that is incorrect as can be seen on http://blog.ifcomp.org/. I guess my only option is to not play or judge the entries that voluntarily admit to using it, although I don’t recall such admissions in previous competitions. I could at least see the rationale for allowing it if billions of venture capital dollars were flowing in. There are already competitions for generativ…