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The Nanowrite Nepotism
Sep. 2nd, 2024 09:59 amTHE NANOWRIMO NEPOTISM
A morality play in three acts.
ACT I: THE BRIBE. ProWritingAid, an AI editing suite, partners with NaNoWriMo, which is supposed to encourage casual creators to write a novel in a month.
ACT II: THE CORRUPTION. NaNoWriMo takes a strident new view that it's OK to use AI in NaNoWriMo. Want to write a prompt and have software built on plagiarism churn out a 50,000-word pile of crap? Good job. You've accomplish NaNoWriMo's goal!
ACT III: THE EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL. NaNoWriMo writes paragraph after paragraph about how it's ableist and classist to condemn machines built on stolen creativity.
I'd say they killed themselves by making their "challenge" entirely irrelevent, but their misappropriation, misuse, and corruption of social-justice language is just evil.
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There's an issue here with every marketer in the world jumping on the word "AI". There are certainly editing tools, possibly even including ProWritingAid, I don't know, that *can* help out people. I mean, last time I looked at grammarly it was still catastrophically bad, but I look at the little underlines in Microsoft Word. The grammar suggestions are rarely right, but the spelling corrections sometimes are.
But for an official entity like NaNoWriMo to be unable to distinguish between grammar support and generative AI is just head-shakingly stupid, and it's likely to lead to the death of their organization. And deservedly so at this point.
https://www.404media.co/nanowrimo-ai-policy-classist-ableist/
A morality play in three acts.
ACT I: THE BRIBE. ProWritingAid, an AI editing suite, partners with NaNoWriMo, which is supposed to encourage casual creators to write a novel in a month.
ACT II: THE CORRUPTION. NaNoWriMo takes a strident new view that it's OK to use AI in NaNoWriMo. Want to write a prompt and have software built on plagiarism churn out a 50,000-word pile of crap? Good job. You've accomplish NaNoWriMo's goal!
ACT III: THE EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL. NaNoWriMo writes paragraph after paragraph about how it's ableist and classist to condemn machines built on stolen creativity.
I'd say they killed themselves by making their "challenge" entirely irrelevent, but their misappropriation, misuse, and corruption of social-justice language is just evil.
--
There's an issue here with every marketer in the world jumping on the word "AI". There are certainly editing tools, possibly even including ProWritingAid, I don't know, that *can* help out people. I mean, last time I looked at grammarly it was still catastrophically bad, but I look at the little underlines in Microsoft Word. The grammar suggestions are rarely right, but the spelling corrections sometimes are.
But for an official entity like NaNoWriMo to be unable to distinguish between grammar support and generative AI is just head-shakingly stupid, and it's likely to lead to the death of their organization. And deservedly so at this point.
https://www.404media.co/nanowrimo-ai-policy-classist-ableist/