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NaNoWriMo gets AI sponsor, says not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’
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this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2024
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I use NovelAI myself. But you gotta provide good context since it mimics your own writing and isn't an instruct model. It's more of a "yeah, and—" for brief passages.
read the fucking room before you come in here and advocate for your favorite plagiarism machine
Meh. It's a fun toy. And it picks up and highlights all my bad writing behaviors, so it's actually useful for learning.
I'd rather have a little discourse than an echo chamber. I know people hate that term for good reason, but as we've seen many times, it can happen anywhere. We should always be vigilant to prevent that.
I'll step up and say, I think this is fine, and I support your use. I get it. I think that there are valid use cases for AI where the unethical labor practices become unnecessary, and where ultimately the work still starts and ends with you.
In a world, maybe not too far in the future, where copyright law is strengthened, where artist and writer consent is respected, and it becomes cheap and easy to use a smaller model trained on licensed data and your own inputs, I can definitely see how a contextual autocomplete that follows your style and makes suggestions is totally useful and ethical.
But i understand people's visceral reaction to the current world. I'd say, it's ok to stay your course.