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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year ago

NaNoWriMo gets AI sponsor, says not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’

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NaNoWriMo gets AI sponsor, says not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year ago
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NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) started in 1999 to get writers to spend their November writing a 50,000-word novel. The idea is that quality doesn’t matter — you get into the rhythm of wri…
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    A while back one of their reps did say somewhere on Reddit that they have no intention of adding any LLM features to Scrivener. Granted, they said that in the context of moving towards a subscription model and talking about features that don’t work with their current business model, but still. Unless something has changed recently, they seem to want to stick to being a one-time purchase without any cloud-based services whatsoever, including AI, for their next major version too.

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      I hope so. I know the founder designed it and then learned how to code to build it himself. Hopefully he’s still running the show and he’s a good one

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        that is rad as hell

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          here’s the interview where I learned that. https://medium.com/@timetolose/my-interview-with-keith-blount-a49c7764f26f

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      Official word from Scrivener here https://xcancel.com/ScrivenerApp/status/1830556231431254328

      our position on this is that we do not include any AI tools in our apps and allow users their own choice of where to back up work, allowing them to choose services that don’t allow AI access. Thanks :)

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