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NaNoWriMo gets AI sponsor, says not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’ (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 3 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

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

"it is simply too big to categorically endorse or not endorse"

"so we're gonna play it safe and endorse it"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 15 points 3 months ago

that fits the tone of this stubborn defense

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago

"Because we got paid, cause we got paid, cause we got pa-aid!"

To the tune of "Then I got high" by Afroman.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago

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