Well, NaNoWriMo has made an official statement that they believe categorical condemnation of "AI" to be classist and ableist. I'm… I'm just done with them.
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Well, NaNoWriMo has made an official statement that they believe categorical condemnation of "AI" to be classist and ableist. I'm… I'm just done with them.
I used to overlook issues I was seeing with the organization behind NaNo, but… this is too much.
Their argument appears to boil down to "without LLMs many people don't know how to write and proofread their novels", but isn't that exactly what NaNoWriMo is supposed to be teaching people to do for themselves?
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Amin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫replied to Amin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫 last edited by
I need a "I won NaNoWriMo before they enshittified" shirt.
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Amin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫replied to Amin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫 last edited by
Ooookay so I had an idea and jumped on it.
I'm now the proud owner of writingmonth.org. I'm gonna code up a site for a generic, non-enshittified site for community focused chasing of writing goals, coincidentally focused around the month of November.
Any NaNoWriMo veterans who wanna give me ideas or recommendations, I am very happy to take them.
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Bryan Redeaglereplied to Amin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫 last edited by
@[email protected] not a veteran, but someone who's been wanting to do NaNoWriMo for a while. Sounds like I'll be doing your thing instead.
If there's any small tasks you need help with, I can do some dev/design things. -
@amin FYI i believe they have now added an update to that article that digs them deeper into the hole IMO
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@dyani @amin I read the whole thing and I'm just left with puzzlement. They didn't have to say any of this. There was no pressing need for them to weigh in. But they did anyway -- in a scolding and judgmental manner. I swear some orgs just can't help but damage themselves. Ironically you also see it with some AI businesses.
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Amin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫replied to Mystery Babylon last edited by
I've heard that one of their sponsors this year is a GenAI company (haven't actually checked to confirm that yet), in which case my suspicion is they're wanting to improve relations with said sponsor?
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Mystery Babylonreplied to Amin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫 last edited by
@amin @dyani It just boggles my mind -- the whole blowup #NaNoWriMo had this past two years was in part kicked off by partnering with a scam vanity publishing sponsor in 2022, and being called out on it by wrimos.
Sorry that they're Reddit links (and long), but it's the most thorough retelling of the organization's recent scandals.
Now they've revamped the board, got a new director (who sucks), and...did it again? WTAF?