Generative AI backlash hits annual writing event, prompting resignations
When artificial intelligence first rolled out to the masses in late 2022, writers flocked online to test ChatGPT as a brainstorming partner, idea generator, or just a curiosity. Soon, the serious questions started: what happens when robots start writing stories, poems, and whole novels? In September 2024, NaNoWriMo, the world’s most famous month-long writing challenge,…