P.S. On the classism, that is unhinged in its detachment. For real, have they never met poor and working class writers and artists? We're MORE likely to work together.
@thoughtpunks Hmpf. It comes from a good sentiment but it's unclear both to abled and disabled folks.
- Abled folks will read this in the sense that a mental impairment would imply a lower intellectual level, that accessibility requests would signal a long-term productivity impairment.
- Disabled folks may read this as "according to #NaNoWriMo, thinking slower equals to thinking less correctly, whereas the latter depends more on education", or "NaNoWriMo are implying disabled people would structurally be traumatized and poorly educated" (which is then a complex topic, but yes, that's at stake for mentally disabled folks; we're made dysfunctional by an ableist, productivist society).
- Both may read this as "allowing disabled people to steal ideas, concepts, and contents is an accessibility measure", which probably isn't what the author meant, at all.
By the way, yes, AI may give people (abled and disabled) a one-paragraph prompt which they may elaborate on. It's an environmental disaster so I'm not doing this, but a local beggar in the subway's telling me it's a useful starting point. The fact that it may be an LLM-generated summary of a single web page doesn't seem to be clear to AI users, and NaNoWriMo has failed by lacking clarity about this, but is it patronizing to say that people living with e.g. ADHD or more broadly, people being successfully modelized and made dysfunctional, alienated by our capitalist images-based society, abled and/or disabled, could be inspired by a writing prompt, as literature is meant for?
@thoughtpunks For example, consider an autistic person living with depression. There's no reason to assume that they couldn't write something good and the idea that autism isn't a lack of intelligence is now widespread, "thanks" to models of "high-functioning" autists (at the expense of whoever doesn't fit into this new autism norm).
But they may be happier by using AI prompts and writing something new every day. This could give them a sense of "comfort tasks" (washing their teeth, cleaning their desks, etc.) Maybe disabled people themselves have been victims of abled do-gooders on social media, and have asked NaNoWriMo to take an official position about this.
Nobody knows but I think you went out on a limb with this take.
