It said opposing the tech ignores “classist and ableist” issues.

The organization behind National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is being slammed online after it claimed that opposing the use of AI writing tools is “classist and ableist.” On Saturday, NaNoWriMo published its stance on the technology, announcing that it doesn’t explicitly support or condemn any approach to writing.

“We believe that to categorically condemn AI would be to ignore classist and ableist issues surrounding the use of the technology, and that questions around the use of AI tie to questions around privilege,” NaNoWriMo said, arguing that “not all brains” have the “same abilities” and that AI tools can reduce the financial burden of hiring human writing assistants.

NaNoWriMo’s annual creative writing event is the organization’s flagship program that challenges participants to create a 50,000-word manuscript every November. Last year, the organization said that it accepts novels written with the help of AI apps like ChatGPT but noted that doing so for the entire submission “would defeat the purpose of the challenge.”

  • AlexanderESmith
    12•14 days ago

    AI tools can reduce the financial burden of hiring human writing assistants

    … Are MFs hiring teams to help them with the “let’s do a fun writing project” month?

    I admit that I haven’t been keeping track of NaNoRiMo since I heard about it a few decades ago, but isn’t the point of it to commit to that personal writing project, and having accountability partners and stuff?

    Anyway; Fuck AI books, in whole or part. If you can’t write, then don’t write. If you write shitty, then write shitty. You’ll either get better with practice, or you wont, but it’s better than cheating on homework that you assigned to yourself.