I'm withdrawing from my partnership and advisory role in No Nut November after the ridiculous statement by the organizers supporting the use of AI. Getting a machine to not jack off for you undermines the entire point of this inspiring community.
the funniest thing about nanowrimo allowing LLMs to be used to write is that there already exists and has existed for well over a decade an equivalent project, NaNoGenMo, about writing code to generate 50k words. it's always been tongue-in-cheek, but some of the submissions are genuinely interesting and funny - people finding the most absurd ways they can generate 50k words, or people making enormous walls of ASCII art and calling it a "novel," etc. it's been going on since long, long before LLMs existed.
one of the most memorable for me was someone generating a script for two players playing the card game "war," and running it over and over again until they reached a game so unbearably long and tedious that it crossed the 50k word threshold.
like, obviously, writing code to generate many "words" can be beautiful, can be thought-provoking, is a project in itself. and they could have appealed to that. but no they said "it's racist of you to not like the prose of chatGPT." says a lot about their intentions and what they consider to be the point of nanowrimo!
We're TwinkleSoft, a team of two people, and we're designing a cute jump-and-shoot game. We're still at the beginning but we already have some material ready.
We plan to release a demo later this year! (September 6th)
https://twinklesoftware.itch.io/robogal
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