#NaNoWriMo says condemning the use of #LLMs is ableist, but we know that LLMs regurgitate dominant perspectives, biases, and styles. These biases include whiteness, heteronormativity, and, yes, #neuronormativity. This hegemonic reinforcement is unavoidable because they're trained on massive, indiscriminately-scraped datasets. Given the social dominance of these biases, they form the bulk of the models' training.

By saying that LLMs are useful, enabling writing tools for neurodiverse peoples - whether for text generation, editing, or review - they're implying, whether intentional or not, that the purpose of accommodation is conforming to neuronormative, ableist standards. This is not enablement, it's erasure. It's a condemnation of #neurodiversity as a pathology that should be masked; that assimilation is how we should overcome adversity and disability. It reinforces neuronormativity and #ableism, just as LLMs do.

Our society disables people. From the infrastructures that shape our means of interaction to the conventions that embody them, we favor an idealized form of humanity that reflects the racial, gendered, ableist, classist power imbalances that dominate us. LLMs are not cognizant of this. They're not cognizant of anything. They're probabilistic next word guessers, and the most probable next word in our society is one that enables power and disables the powerless.

Fuck LLMs. Don't let these assholes use us to hype their grift. Remember that TESCREALism is eugenicist, and that this characterization of accommodation plays right into eugenicist ideas about eliminating neurodiverse peoples. tl;dr: eat shit NaNoWriMo.