[brendoelfrendo]

The goal of the competition is to show that disciplined and consistent work can turn an idea into a finished first-draft of a story. You are competing against no one but yourself (and the clock), and if you cheat by using AI to write for you, then you are cheating no one but yourself.

> first of all it might be more work than just writing it yourself

I mean, that sounds like a great reason to not use AI, and if true, kind of defeats the purpose of condoning its use in the first place.

[dialup_sounds]

You're making this weird assumption that the only use of AI is to literally write the story for you, but 1) that's wrong and 2) nobody is actually suggesting or encouraging that for NaNoWriMo.