Beat My AI: Visual Stories: Originals

Overview
Beat My AI is an online magazine whose 'Original' section stages a deliberate confrontation between machine-generated and human-made expression. The premise is structural rather than thematic: each accepted submission must contain a limited, clearly marked part generated or heavily influenced by AI. That AI component then becomes the occasion for a second, human-authored 'Contender' piece by another contributor, creating a published dialogue between the synthetic and the handmade. The format is deliberately open—comics, postcard poetry, hybrids, or any combination of words and images—provided the work holds together as a visual story. For the practitioner, the appeal lies in the editorial framing. This is not a call for AI-assisted polish or productivity; it is a call for work that exposes its own conditions of making. The AI element must be legible as such, which means the artist or writer is asked to think about authorship, provenance, and the seam between intention and generation. The magazine's decision to pair each 'Original' with a 'Contender' suggests a curatorial interest in response, friction, and the social life of images and text rather than in isolated masterworks. Because the call is rolling and there is no fee, the barrier to entry is low, but the conceptual demand is specific. Submissions should be conceived as complete works that happen to contain an AI-generated part, not as demonstrations of a tool. The strongest entries will treat the AI component as a compositional element with its own texture and limits, and will leave room for the 'Contender' to answer back. The magazine publishes online, so the work must function on screen and in the hybrid space between reading and looking.