...and fuck NaNoWriMo.
Christ on a cracker.
The condemnation of AI is anything but categorical. Even the most fervent opponents of LLM-based generative AI acknowledge that there are uses of Machine Learning (see what I did there?) that have the potential to (even, already have) make positive change in the world. AI is not a monolith. There is a difference between analytical machine learning and generative AI.
Of course generative AI has classist and ableist undertones. Because LLMs are trained on biased media, they include all the biases of the media they learned from.
Finally, there is currently no major generative AI system of which I'm aware that has not been trained on stolen media. Writing, art, music: all stolen by a bunch of rich guys, largely from poor people. Because these assholes have outright said they can't make a buck from generative AI if they have to gasp pay for the training data!
Do we even need to go into the ridiculous environmental costs of generative AI? Yes, yes we do. ChatGPT-4 uses a bottle of water per query, ~500 MWh of energy per day, and costs $500/minute to run.
I am severely disappointed in you, NaNoWriMo. I expected better.
I am wondering what is going on. How is the NaNo head Kilby digging herself deeper with each update?
Also, the use of spicy autocorrect has already been found in court to interfere with the ability to copyright your work. So it's apparently classist and ableist to believe that authors should be able to get paid?
Been watching this on Threads. Itâs become a disgrace. I cannot in good faith promote this org anymore after last year. This bs just seals it.



















