NaNoWriMo shut down after AI, content moderation scandals

NanowrimoA 25-year-old online article, which was closed on Monday evening, announced that the community was closed on Monday.

Nanowrimo – shortening of the month of National Romance is the annual problem for writers to complete a rude part of a novel in November. A Yahoo! After starting as! In 1999, the mailing list, the project was described in itself “The Internet is famous“With hundreds of thousands of participants, more than two decades.

The organization says other problems are financially problems that are more execution of other problems last year.

Nanowrimo has lost a significant society support while standing in favor of use Artificial intelligence in creative writing.

New York Times, Authors Maureen Johnson and Daniel José aged He resigned from a non-profit board, reflects a growing anxiety among those who wrote Work is stolen Train many AI models that threaten their livelihood.

At the same time, it was lambasted for non-profit Inappropriate mild He claimed that the community members were in the forums, which created a dangerous environment for the authors of the enrichment.

According to Nanowrimo, these disputes related to this content moderation and the AI ​​did not cause the death of a direct organization. But, of course, did not help.

“Nanowrimon’s death to blame last year’s events, all struggling is non-profit,” a Nanowrimo spokesman, Kilby, declared On YouTube video. “Many large, very attractive society allows you to believe that the service to be provided is free.”