Attention writer peeps: NaNoWriMo has gone with AI sponsors and has thrown their lot in with copyright theft, content scrapers, environmental destruction, and exploitation of developing countries. I will immediately be deleting my account and never participating again.

Honestly it feels like there's some kind of curse on everything one of my ex-girlfriends was into

They are dead to me.

Few things grind my gears quite as much as the vocabulary of social justice being co-opted so blatantly to make more money for a handful of tech billionares at our and the planet's expense

Haven't participated in awhile, but I deleted my account too.

Done. Deleted.

They used AI to generate this bullshit, didn't they. Bonus points for using a vision metaphor in their ableism paragraph. Totally stuff they 100% wholeheartedly believe and not just an attempt to dodge criticism or use the disabled as a shield.

Certain amount of temptation to NaNoBulwer-Lytton to fuck with their content scraping, but it's really not worth it.

Are they officially sponsored by some AI company or is that conjecture based on the insanity that is this announcement?

Very disappointing

Deleted the story I had attempted to write there years ago. Keeping my account so I can publish 50,000 words of "NaNoWriMo sucks" and let them add that to their LLM.