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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The audacity to tout classism and ableism as reasons as to why people should "get to" use LLMs for their "write a novel in a month" challenge...

Even when someone's inability to write a novel in a month is because of their class or disability, I somehow doubt they want to let a machine write their novel for them. I mean, it's not like NaNoWriMo is a way to put food on the table or something, right?!!

This feels like the arguments Mid journey ~~fellators~~ fanboys were spouting a year ago (or has it been two?) on how not everyone can afford a school of fine arts 🙄

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Also the "banking the unbanked" arguments from crypto fanboys before that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Also plenty of people with disabilities still find ways to write in spite of or even inspired by their unique limitations. I've seen very similar arguments around visual arts and loads of people with disabilities have spoken out against it.