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radley-writes · 3 months ago

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Exactly this.

NaNoWriMo, the competition whose raison d'etre is making people write actual words for a month, declaring that you can do writing with AI is a predictably inane choice. But coaching their statement in social justice language about how banning AI is classist and ableist, now that elevates it to the sublimely dopey

#support your community of writers #on whatever platform you're on #for me it's mostly discord with a bit of tumblr nowadays #get involved in communities and you can overcome a lot of these hurdles.#encouraging people to turn immediately to AI disincentivizes community feedback models #for the record: if people want to write AI fiction that's their perogative #I don't doubt that there are some folks who legitimately cannot write because of their disability who might enjoy using generative AI #that's fair enough #but we don't have to pretend that's the same thing as writing a novel?#and it is in fact really patronising to do so?#I have a lot of brain fog and bad memory issues due to disability but thankfully I have workarounds #which mostly rely on the help of betas and other feedback partners #and relationships I've cultivated over years in the writing community #but if I didn't have that and used AI... I would be kinda weirded out by people #pretending that typing prompts into AI was the exact same thing as planning and writing a novel #like... it's obviously not? everyone knows that?? why are we pretending otherwise? it just feels uncomfy #it'd be like someone saying to me 'you can't run at all or walk properly so you lost the race. but here's the prize anyway!'#or.... I can't write with a pen because disabilities. But I can type/use dragon speech-to-text #so for me to type something in a calligraphic font #and have someone say it's the same as writing with calligraphy just because I'm disabled is..... ????? no.#like.... it's okay to admit that when someone needs so many adaptations that they're not doing the same thing as abled people #that they're... doing a different thing? hell celebrate AI creation! make an AI creation month!#but don't pretend it's the exact same thing as sitting down at your laptop and writing a novel #JUST because it might be a way for some disabled folks to enjoy themselves artistically #that's just so patronizing

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