> there is no AI publication that I am aware of that is good

I think you're right that there isn't any that's any good right now, but that's beside the point that if that changes (or if that's wrong) then people mostly won't care.

> At least in the communities that I frequent (fantasy, sci-fi, horror)

I think if you are part of a "community" surrounding some genre, then you are probably exposed to an extremely non-representative subset of the population that consumes that genre.