The bizarre thing about this is like… NaNo is not a competition, there’s no prizes or judging. People pasting GPT slop into that submission box are only cheating themselves, really. This is like the organizers of a fun run coming out with a statement about PEDs… and saying they’re pro-PEDs, and it’s ableist to say otherwise.
NaNoWriMo is sponsored by "AI-assisted writing" tools-making companies and they want that bag
and yes, i have zero doubts they're going to use people's submissions as training data
lol ok then this is like if the fun run organizers were getting kickbacks from the local HGH dealer
the classism angle and its heavy implication of "people can't be good writers unless they can afford expensive editors" pissed me off immensely until i realized the checks are written by people who go "our AI editor will allow the masses to become Stephen Kings for a small price"
then i just got sad
