go AI, fucking die
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Gang Spocking Victim
Less than a year after a full-throated embrace of AI, NaNoWriMo is shutting down :
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Then again the extent of my recent interaction has been very occaisionally checking a private FB nano group I joined in 2012 to see what weird group beef is happening.
Various writing communities formed to support each other online. The official site was useful for word count tracking but never got very involved in the social side there.
Well, it's called the Movember Foundation, but it is indeed a multi-million dollar non-profit.
Then, this info is wiped from my brain until next time. Not even their old AI-support news made it stick.
Turns out, setting up a months worth of events in a region is a pain in the butt
It was all the SA, sexual harassment, grooming, CSAM, inability to hold people in positions of power accountable and the fact it kind of ended up resembling a Multi-Level Marketing scam for its structure (I'd put MLM... but that would be ambigious here)
Based upon how LLM stuff has not really affected anybody else doing it
And that is how I found out a bunch of people I know were already upset about the SA stuff with NaNoWriMo
But it's reddit so...ya know
The social element was part of it... and that is why it was actually the SA/Harassment/Grooming Scandals that ended this
I get where you're coming from, but there are definitely ways to connect like-minded people that don't involve washing off years worth of accrued stink from an old org.
And turns out, organising that stuff is a pain in the butt
It was _SUPPOSE_ to make the process smoother and easier
It brought attention to the other issues too rather than distracting from them.
But also fuck AI.
It is called "The Movember Foundation"
I did not go to them--but I kind of recognised this made me as an outsider of sorts
Then they shut down both forums and in-person meetup support, and… poof, money gone.