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NaNoWriMo is allowing AI. Here's what we will do about that:

NaNoWriMo has spoken on the use of AI in meeting your word goals this year. Here's what they had to say:

"We believe that to categorically condemn AI would be to ignore classist and ableist issues surrounding the use of the technology, and that questions around the use of AI tie to questions around privilege... For all of those reasons, we absolutely do not condemn AI, and we recognize and respect writers who believe that AI tools are right for them. We recognize that some members of our community stand staunchly against AI for themselves, and that's perfectly fine. As individuals, we have the freedom to make our own decisions." [SOURCE]

I implore you to read the link above for their full opinion and reasonings, rather than this out-of-context quote.

I understand AI can be a valuable tool. It can be incredibly helpful for mundane tasks such as asking questions and creating lists, and I do use AI to speed up work or household management tasks where I can. That said, once AI is used to create media, it is no longer art that can be later be turned into a product at the artist's discretion. It is now a product first.

This is because the intention is now perfection. There is no need for perfection if you are creating art for yourself. There is no need for perfection on a first draft either, which is what NaNoWriMo is INTENDED to kickstart. Regardless...

There is no need for perfection in art.

That notion aside, everything put into a generative AI tool can now be used by that tool for OTHER people's prompts. Using AI to edit a chapter of your novel now means every word of that chapter is a part of ChatGPT, Gemini, or whatever AI tool you are using during the editing process. Your words, your characters, and your story are now a part of AI. It is no longer yours, and now will be regurgitated into someone else's product without your knowledge. We know this, because there have been multiple instances of plagiarism when using these tools to write or edit existing writing [SOURCE 1] [SOURCE 2]. If you use these tools for a book you intend to publish, you are RISKING plagiarism at best, and a lawsuit at worst (again, see sources above for details on a lawsuit from this year... which is not the first, nor the last).

There are waves of future authors boycotting NaNoWriMo over this, both here and on BookTok. So now we're left with no home as November approaches.

This is where my idea comes in.

I don't have the means to create and maintain a website to replicate the NaNoWriMo writing sprints right now. But what I can do, is start a Discord server. For now, I'm calling it Word Surge. I want to eventually host MONTHLY writing sprints, with user-voted rules on word count and stipulations for the writing sprints. I also want to recreate the feeling of the forums through Discord's new threads feature and/or channels to rebuild a sense of community both missing from NaNoWriMo's current set up, and the days of the writing website Figment (woo, anyone remember Figment?).

This is something I've wanted to do for a while. But with the NaNoWriMo controversy, now seems like the time.

Here's the link. I'll see you there!

[rpgorbust]

day #1: today I become an indie game dev

have I coded before? sorta. I know how to make bold or italic text in HTML... but that's it.

I also attempted to follow a C# course before but got distracted with work.

but i really want to learn how to code, and I love doing pixel art just as an art form of it's own

I have a few game ideas, one being a Japanese-teaching RPG style game, and one being a murder mystery detective nior style RPG and town / farm simulator.

so today, i'm downloading visual studio and watching a video tutorial.

wish me luck!