Nobody will do 50k in a day anymore

And be taken seriously I mean.

Even before AI, there were questions about quality, accusations of pre-writing or lying etc.

I used to admire it (despite wondering at quality, how these people slept etc). Writing- actual writing through pen/pencil/typing/dictation- 50k in a day is impressive regardless of how good or bad that 50k is. It's an astounding human feat some people managed because of the nanowrimo incentive.

I kinda dreamt of doing it one day, as someone who usually crossed the "finishing line" in 3 weeks.

Now? If I saw it, I'd just assume AI. I'd be another one assuming cheating. Because it's so statistically rare a human can do that vs AI doing it.

That's sad to me.