NaNoWriMo to close after 20 years
(theguardian.com)19 points by kawera 20 hours ago
19 points by kawera 20 hours ago
This is unfortunate. I distinctly remember participating in NaNoWriMo back in middle school. The writing often extended beyond November as it was actually enjoyable. Freeform writing is so much better for learning than the contrived bureaucratic style we're forced into in high school.
Why is AI writing shunned? The book publishing industry needs to be badly disrupted.
why? ai writing is one of the few places where ai might actually be good. topic choice, inwriting, editing are also huge things.
because you are overindexing on the act of writing instead of how it feels to read. now whether you should pay the same amount for it or not is a different question.
one thing is disruption of the publishing industry, the other is taking monetazation possibiities off authors (despite the piggy-back bloodsuckers)
so, how the AI writing will help the authors? Or, did you mean "authorship needs to be disrupted"?
authors are already using ai. it needs to be more transparently sold
Nobody wants to buy AI books. People who buy books would see an AI book as an outright scam.
My eight year old daughter is busily writing several books about the adventures of cats on nanowrimo.
Are there any good open source alternatives for self hosting this kind of platform?
This makes me very sad.