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The part everyone keeps screenshotting from the nanowrimo post about AI is bad, but I feel like the most bizarre quote comes right after:

Classism. Not all writers have the financial ability to hire humans to help at certain phases of their writing. For some writers, the decision to use AI is a practical, not an ideological, one. The financial ability to engage a human for feedback and review assumes a level of privilege that not all community members possess.

This is nanowrimo?? Look, I've never done nanowrimo myself, but the idea that everyone is hiring proofreaders for their nanowrimo projects just seems completely and utterly out of touch with what their actual community even is. I don't understand how this would ever even occur to anyone, even knowing how far they had to stretch to justify this.


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Yup, I saw that. Which certainly explains why they're trying to justify it, but they're still failing horribly at coming up with a justification that makes sense.

BONKERS. absolutely bonkers. the NaNoWriMo i knew did not involve spending money on anything except maybe notebooks and i guess they had like some branded merch iirc??? but the whole point was to extract a rough draft from your brain. not to edit. like, everyone was constantly yelling STOP EDITING AND PROOFREADING JUST GO GO GO at each other all the time!!

Yeah, I've never participated myself but my understanding of NaNoWriMo has always been that it's an exercise not in making a polished, readable script, but specifically as a way to get over the block of worrying about whether the writing is good enough and instead push people to just write and write, and worry about editing later.

yeah this is fucking weird.

Nanowrimo and other types of creative jams are supposed to be events where you spend some time away from your normal routine/work doing a thing for your own personal growth, it isn't intended to be marketable, polished, finished stuff, so the idea of even -hiring- someone to help you with it sounds absurdly disconnected from why people do these things.

I've noticed a pretty sad pattern where creative jams develop more and more public awareness and eventually reach some tipping point where they transform from mostly artists refining their craft into a substantial audience of people trying to use the event for networking and personal advertising, like some kind of inside-out job fair. The latter group is always willing to bend or break the rules if it improves their odds of "winning", and people participating in good faith tend to fold easily.

That makes sense, unfortunately. And I suppose once you have an organization with money and employees running the thing, it becomes much easier for things to end up tilted in favour of that group.

This seems like a necessary step on the path to rebranding as NaNoWriDa, where you churn through a fifty-thousand word novel in one day (only thirty-five words per minute), surrounded by twenty-nine days interviewing assistants, figuring out payroll taxes, getting everybody health insurance, and handling the editing recommended by the workforce...

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