My timeline is 98% people justifiably burning NaNoWriMo to the ground. For any organisation, this is a nightmare. For one barely out from under its last, near fatal scandal, this is incredible. Have fun collating a few thousand useless LLM-generated manuscripts, you fucking cowards.

(Checks what they've gone and said - oh blimey)

Where is this statement? I can't find it on their site.

Yikes 😬 I would not want to be uploading any work to them to get it verified after this since they're sponsored by an AI company too

What was the last scandal?

The statement had to have been written by a bot

It was totally worth it for that AI writing tool sponsorship though!

No self-respecting writer will post to their service anymore because of this either. They really decided to scupper their survivability by letting a plagiarism machine company sponsor them

A fine chance for a Ai-detecting ai software company to swoop in and pick off the last bits of reputation NaNoWrMo may still have…

for an organization with a pretty simple mandate, they've managed to raise a lot of money for a lot of programs over the years. this is just bad for them. so bad.

i managed not to hear about the last outrageous thing they did - something about blaming autistic people for their moderation problems?