"ai is making it so everyone can make art" Everyone can make art dipshit it came free with your fucking humanity
Oh gee, you're right! Why didn't the people who can't even move their arms think of just making a painting? /s
And before anyone starts spouting some "art is more than just painting" spiel, you don't know what kind of art someone might need to make in order to express their vision. An artist may have a very specific idea in mind to create the perfect piece of graphic art, and using music, performance, etc. just won't cut it for them. AI is a tool that can help the disabled in so many ways. Not even just with art. Get off your high horse and accept that disabled people have different needs and, guess what, ABILITIES than you do. Fuck you, asshole.
you are a tar pit.
and you are ableist.
you're fighting against a tool that makes art more accessible, and actively dismissing the notion that it could even possibly be doing that. this IS ableist. YOU are the tar pit in this situation.
L+Ratio+It doesn't+i slept w your mom
Hi Iâm disabled Iâm crippled I have a disorder that makes my fingers suddenly dislocate while Iâm holding my pencil I have a spinal issue that makes it hard for me to bend over a desk half of the time I have leg issues that make it difficult for me to get around etc etc etc. I also have a bunch of other issues I donât want to tell you about.
Iâm also in art college. And even if I wasnât, Iâve been doing art for almost a decade now. Iâve been disabled the whole bloody time.
AI, isnât art.
There are many disabled artists and we have adapted our own ways of dealing with how we create. Fuck you, we have been doing this forever.
Vincent Van Gogh had temporal lobe epilepsy; Henri Matisse became a wheelchair user after surgery for cancer; Michelangelo had osteoarthritis, limiting mobility and causing pain in his hands and feet.
Paul Smith had a severe case of cerebral palsy and created art using typewriters.
Peter Longstaff has no arms due to Thalidomide, and paints with his feet.
Frida Kahlo not only had polio that disabled her as a child, but of course as we all know was injured in a bus accident at the age of 18, which caused her lifelong pain and medical problems.
Fuck, you want a personal annecdote? I knew a girl (we have lost touch since) who was paralysed from the neck down and she painted with her mouth and there are other artists who do so too! And with eye tracking technology Iâm sure disabled artists will be getting more and more tools as the years pass. But we do NOT condone AI art. All that does is put us, real disabled artists, who exist and need support, out of jobs and commissions.
Fuck you.
hi, another disabled person here for more personal anecdotes! here is an art piece i made entirely with my non dominant hand 1 week before my most recent shoulder surgery on that same arm. i also wear splint rings to keep my fingers from dislocating while painting (or playing bass guitar cause i do that too). i make most of my income off hand painted art despite having hand tremors, frequent wrist dislocations/subluxations, and migraines.
my friend and her wife also make their incomes off wig making, leatherwork, and digital collage prints. both have chronic pain as well.
our lines arent perfect because we have shaky hands but thats ok, make it a feature not a flaw in your art. fuck AI.
Anyone who thinks physically disabled people need to use art stealing AI to make our own art is the ableist, actually.
Mine isn't as drastic (yet) but I've been having to wear wrist braces and finger splints since childhood off and on because using my hands in a repetitive motions causes them to be in pretty excruciating pain.
What is my art medium of choice? Knitting. You know, that thing where you have to do a repetitive motion over and over again. I hold my needles a bit strange, I knit through the pain, I sometimes have to give up working on it for weeks at a time. But I will not stop because it's what makes my heart sing.
Disabled artists don't need your pity, we've been getting by, doing what makes us happy despite the pain and hardships for thousands of years, probably longer, I bet there were neolithic disabled artists.
No actual real artist wants or uses AI, including disabled artists. AI is for losers who are scared of the extremely important phase in art where you suck and want to skip it by stealing and not even in a cool "I'm emulating your style because I wanna learn from it" way.
Go suck at art for a couple years like the rest of us and stop talking over disabled artists.
Can I just add
Chuck Close
Chuck Close was a painter and photographer who specialized in ENORMOUS portraiture. If you've never been in the same room as one of his works, try to remedy that if you can, because it is an awesome experience. Close had a number of mental and physical conditions as a child, but in 1988, in his 40s and already a celebrated artist, he suffered a blood clot that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After intensive physical therapy, he was able to regain enough control to move his arms (more his upper arms than forearms), enabling him to paint with a brush strapped to his wrist. He adapted his painting style for his disability... and he continued painting enormous, hyper realistic portraits.
Close with self-portraits before (left) and after (right) his paralysis:
AI doesn't enable anyone to make art. It enables you to have art, if you like. But you don't order a takeaway and claim you "made Chinese food"
Hi, I'm also a disabled artist, and I can't add much beyond what others have on the topic, but I wanted to share my experiences as well.
I have nerve damage throughout my arms and hands. I've had bilateral carpal tunnel release with residual weakness and muscle atrophy, and I have arthritis that affects my hands joints. I've had two major head injuries and I have temporal lobe epilepsy. As with OP, I also have some other conditions I don't feel like sharing.
As for my art.. I use a lot of mediums. I crochet, which is a very repetitive skill that requires controlling yarn tension. I draw and paint, and I work with some mixed media. I like to work with clay when I can. I can sew and do some light quilting, which I enjoy. I play keyboard, despite how quickly it tires my hands. I also bake and decorate sugar cookies when I'm able to.
When I'm not creating something, I'm a student at my local university, studying neuropsychology. I take a lot of notes, and draw diagrams for my biology classes. I'm specifically researching AI impact on social cognition and mental wellness. I work in cognitive science and I'm well-versed in machine learning.
AI "art" is not art. It just isn't. It's an insult to artists, especially disabled artists, to call AI-critical stances "ableist" in the face of facts. Saying disabled people can't make art and need AI to make their "art" for them is foul and absolutely ableist. As someone else said upthread, disabled people have been here making art, and we will continue to do so, because that's being human.
A machine is not human. It cannot create.
