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NaNoWriMo gets AI sponsor, says not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’ (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/fuck_ai

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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.

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[–] forrcaho 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

The 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.