NaNoWriMo first emerged in the San Francisco Bay Area, and it has Silicon Valley's fingerprints all over it; if you've ever thought that producing fiction could be optimized, this is like the Soylent of novel writing. The organization boasts that its platform 'tracks words for writers like Fitbit tracks steps.' But as long as it involved humans actually sitting down and sweating out sentences, it all seemed pretty harmless to someone like me, a curmudgeon who thinks writing is just hard work and not for everyone.
In a statement that seemed like it may have been written by AI, the organization refused to 'explicitly support' or 'explicitly condemn' the use of technological assistance. And in case you thought to object, NaNoWriMo argued that disavowing AI would have exacerbate.
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