For The Story, I looked at this year's National Novel Writing Month controversy around AI, and made the case that whatever this tech can or can't do, "authors" who rely on it are only betraying themselves:

They wanted to let AI write a novel. The backlash was fierce—and illuminating.

The group behind NaNoWriMo called opposing AI “classist and ableist”. Authors revolted—sparking a heated debate about the very nature of creativity.

This was fascinating.

Best of all I got to recollect one of my favorite bits of literary wisdom from @alexanderchee.bsky.social

Nanowrimo was a prompt that became a grift. The fact that AI has become a bothersome factor means the endeavor has been rendered useless

Ableist? Now that’s a new one 😂

The sad thing is that organisationally AI idiocy is one of the smaller examples of Nanowrimo shitting the bed this year. There was a scandal last November where they gave some deeply unsafe people access to their Young Writer's Program, including someone who tried to recruit people for an adult site