NaNoWriMo gets AI sponsor, says not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’
NaNoWriMo gets AI sponsor, says not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) started in 1999 to get writers to spend their November writing a 50,000-word novel. The idea is that quality doesn’t matter — you get into the rhythm of wri…
If the only reason people care about NaNoWriMo is for the name and hashtag, somebody already pitched Writevember as a replacement. Honestly sounds better to me anyway.
I've heard other people say the tools/gamification/etc on the NaNoWriMo platform were really helpful though. For those people, how difficult would it be to potentially patch that stuff into the WriteFreely platform? As one of the only long-form Fediverse-native platforms still being actively developed, maybe they'd appreciate the boost in code contributions.
Um, question?
Did an organization which has a sole stated purpose of getting people to write something actually say that requiring someone to actually write something is ableist?
AI isn't writing any more than my dog taking a shit and then scooting her butt around on the carpet is modern art.
33Honestly, your dog has a better chance of actually making you money than this AI shit these companies are trying to jam down our throats.
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Let me guess - their marketing strategy is to be deliberately provocative to get clickbait coverage?
18From what I heard a hostile take over of the non profit occurred driving out most of the long term staff. This is probably the result of that. Someone deciding you need to shake it up and modernize it
14Do you have an article about this?
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So AI is now considered both a disabled and protected class?
16Wow! NaNoWriMo somehow managed to make itself even less relevant than it already was.
13Honestly sounds better to me anyway.
You think so? It sounds really forced to me. "Novelvember" might work.
9The first time I heard NaNoWriMo mentioned I had no idea what they were talking about.
9“Novelvember” might work.
Now Novel November.
5No Novel November
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The headline is inaccurate; what's being referred to is this part of a statement from NaNoWriMo on the use of AI:
We also want to be clear in our belief that the categorical condemnation of Artificial Intelligence has classist and ableist undertones, and that questions around the use of AI tie to questions around privilege (source)
That's plenty bad enough, no need to embellish it.
8The way to spot that this is bullshit is trivial: replace "AI/Artificial Intelligence" with "ghost writer".
We also want to be clear in our belief that the categorical condemnation of the use of a ghost writer has classist and ableist undertones, and that questions around the use of ghost writers tie to questions around privilege.
Because ... unless they accept ghost-written submissions their acceptance of AI (which is just bad ghost writing by a madlibs machine) is hypocritical bullshit.
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