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NaNoWriMo , a 25 - year - old on-line composition community - turned - nonprofit , announced on Monday evening that it is keep out down .
NaNoWriMo — an abbreviation of National Novel Writing Month — is an yearly challenge for writers to complete a harsh order of payment of a novel during the calendar month of November . After starting as a Yahoo ! mailing list in 1999 , the project farm into a self - described “ net - famous ” written material challenge with hundreds of thousands of participants over more than two decades .
The constitution says it has had longstanding financial issues that have made it difficult to function , but its other problems became more public last class .
NaNoWriMo lost significant community support when it took a standpoint in favor of the use ofartificial intelligence in originative committal to writing .
New York Times bestselling authorsMaureen JohnsonandDaniel José Olderresigned from the nonprofit ’s board in response , reflecting a grow worry among writers about howtheir work is being stolento develop the very AI models that threaten their livelihoods .
Around the same prison term , the non-profit-making was also scold forinconsistent moderationon its all - geezerhood forums , which created an dangerous environment for teenage writer , biotic community fellow member claimed .
According to NaNoWriMo , these controversies over message moderateness and AI did not directly lead to the organization ’s demise . But they sure enough did n’t avail .
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“ To blame NaNoWriMo ’s demise on the event of the last year does a ill service to all struggling nonprofits , ” a NaNoWriMo spokesperson , Kilby , statedin a YouTube video . “ Too many member of a very large , very busy community of interests let themselves believe the military service to be provided was free . ”
