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« Last post by LilyBLily on September 12, 2024, 11:52:29 PM »The National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) organization
I thought their entire aim was getting people to write?
For an organization like that to support AI is just wrong.
That could badly backfire on them.
There's been a lot of negative chatter about this foolish statement, and some high-profile people have withdrawn from NaNoWriMo. On the NaNo site there is no public statement to members about this issue. The latest communication from NaNo admin to members was in April. As a longtime member, I still intend to use NaNo to help me focus on writing 50k words in November, but the forums in which we talk and encourage each other are still frozen. Those forums were shut in mid-November last year. If the board doesn't reopen them by October, its traditional wipe month, NaNoWriMo is dead--whether that is publicly admitted or not.
As for AI content, NaNoWriMo "wins" are all on one's honor. Word count is self-reported. At one time we had to copy and paste our ms., but no longer. Nobody looks at the content, only the word count. If AI content is allowed, some bright people will "win" on November 1. Some always do, anyway, claiming that they type really fast. It never has mattered. It's not a contest. The real issue for me is the forums. If we can't talk to each other, there's no NaNo.