From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   On 10/1/24 12:49 PM, David Langford wrote:   
   > RANDOM FANDOM._NaNoWriMo_  (National Novel Writing Month, every November)   
   > was widely criticized for suggesting that it was fine to achieve the goal   
   > of writing a novel in 30 days by having AI software churn out the words,   
   > and indeed that it's ableist and classist to expect would-be writers to do   
   > their own writing. Is it coincidence that they have an AI-linked firm as   
   > sponsor? Three board members promptly resigned. [F770]   
      
   They may have been criticized for that, but it's not what they   
   suggested. Their statement (at least in its current form) is: "NaNoWriMo   
   neither explicitly supports nor condemns any approach to writing,   
   including the use of tools that  leverage AI. We recognize that harm has   
   been done to the writing and creative communities at the hands of bad   
   actors in the generative AI space, and that the ethical questions and   
   risks posed by some aspects of this technology are real. The fact that   
   AI is a large, complex technology category (which encompasses both   
   non-generative and generative AI, applied in a range of ways to a range   
   of uses) contributes to our belief that AI is simply too big and too   
   varied to categorically support or condemn."   
      
   AI covers a lot of different tools, and many style and grammar checkers   
   claim to use AI. I run a lot of what I write through Grammarly, so I use   
   "tools that leverage AI." NaNoWriMo's statement is unnecessarily vague,   
   but it's not an endorsement of "having AI software churn out the words."   
      
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