i hate the "if you're against ai you're ableist" argument so much because not only does it erase disabled artists who have been working through it for years (because talking about disabled accomplishments is "inspiration porn" ??), but ai art also actively steals from disabled artists and also take away jobs from people who physically may not be able to do any other line of work.
Also the whole throwing disabled people under the bus thing was started by abled-bodied tech bros so its weird seeing actual disabled people parroting that manipulative argument as if they speak on belaf of all disabled people.
Right. Yknow when it first started sparking discussion last year i actually thought "wait, this could be good actually" because i assumed it would be a tool you could build in programs to assist you in drawing, similar to how animation sotfware can automatically interpolate inbetweens based on your key frames but. Yknow. Inside a program as a function. Based on your actual drawn imput and using machine learning to improve itself based on your lines. and not a written prompt. That creates an image using a database full of pictures taken without consent or permission. With ai bros training their AIs with specific artstyles without offering any sort of monetary compensation for the artist. Ai databases that are not only is limited to art but pictures of real people too. Children.
I personally dont even consider it to be about art anymore. Training AIs consumes a fuckton of energy and already on a critical climate state. Theres people making hyperrealistic pornographic images and deepfakes of minors using AI, there's people creating fake incriminating pictures using AI, you can use AI to steal a voice actor's job, an actual government account of israel used AI to generate a picture of a pro-israel protest for propaganda's sake, what do you think the next elections will be like? i think AI generated content should be criminalized and i am not kidding.
The people in my replies/reblogs calling anyone who doesn't support AI as "reactionaries" are out of their damn minds.
I ended up ranting on, but basically if you're pro this current wave of artificial intelligence, you're simply an idiot.
