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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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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A statement by one of the authors who has resigned from the NaNoWriMo board: No More NaNoWriMo, by Cass Morris.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“Well, but if we couldn’t commit this crime, our business couldn’t exist.” Sounds like your business shouldn’t exist, then.

so refreshing to see that from elsewhere too. same stance I hold about so much of the awful shit in the world (including an internet primarily financed through surveillance advertising), and it’d be great if more people bought in

although with how many businesses are speedrunning dumb choices (like the alexa thing etc), maybe that day comes sooner than not

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 15 points 2 months ago

Their starting aside is pretty great as well;

And I’m using that term throughout this post because it’s the commonly accepted descriptor, but we all know it’s not really artificial intelligence, right? I also want to distinguish it from actually-useful and ethically-produced technology like what gets used in the medical field to help humans examine and analyze impossibly huge datasets in the service of doing things like curing cancer. We’re talking here about the plagiarism machines like ChatGPT, everything it underpins, and all of its conceptual mirrors.

Leave no wiggle room for the AI sycophants.