NaNoWriMo gets AI sponsor, says not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’ - eviltoast
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) started in 1999 to get writers to spend their November writing a 50,000-word novel. The idea is that quality doesn’t matter — you get into the rhythm of wri…

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.

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
    33·
    3 months ago

    Um, question?

    Did an organization which has a sole stated purpose of getting people to write something actually say that requiring someone to actually write something is ableist?

    AI isn’t writing any more than my dog taking a shit and then scooting her butt around on the carpet is modern art.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      15·
      3 months ago

      Honestly, your dog has a better chance of actually making you money than this AI shit these companies are trying to jam down our throats.