NaNoWriMo gets AI sponsor, says not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’

https://awful.systems/post/2281787

NaNoWriMo gets AI sponsor, says not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’ - awful.systems

fyi they updated their blog post with this catch-all disclaimer in the last couple of hours

it turns out the only staff member, or one of very few, is the interim ED. Everyone else quit a couple of months ago because she was fucking terrible. I suspect she’s counting sugar lumps.
that fits the tone of this stubborn defense

“Because we got paid, cause we got paid, cause we got pa-aid!”

To the tune of “Then I got high” by Afroman.

categorical

situational

Alright then, point out the situations where there are good actors in the AI space. Oh, there are none? that would imply that materially the whole category is corrupt.

Ahh pussies. I ran the sherlock holmes kink meme a few years back, at one point we had the proto-chat generated fics start to uptick in the community.

We banned them