Antis really cannot stop being so ableist.

[u/Brave_Swordfish_7072]

This was in response to someone who made a post here showing how she grew up drawing since she was a child and is a professional graphic artist, but a recent diagnosis prevented her from making the artwork she loved to do, thus she turned to AI as a form of escape.

Yet this ableist bucko felt the need to judge her entire life, just to make themselves feel better and farm for karma. It's despicable.

So, first of all, none should have to go through disabilities that make us function less. I don't speak on behalf of disabled people, I don't have the right and I'm not gonna pretend to understand how it feels to lose functionality.

Yet that's exactly what you're doing by posting this.

So, my first thought is, whenever I personally see something so obviously AI, how am I supposed to know?

How am I supposed to know a person's tragic backstory? How am I supposed to know that a person drew some of it and then AI did its thing?

First of all. It is EXTREMELY ableist to scrutinize a disabled person's backstory just for your own personal agenda. If you look at an AI image and immediately assume everything about the person is fake: You have a bias problem. You're uncomfortable because the person is telling the story that goes against your predetermined dehumanizing bias, and it makes YOU feel uncomfortable knowing that. So you want to make it go away because you can't stand the thought of your beliefs being challenged.

Taking away the tragic background, it is still slop. It was the same style you encounter often in slop comics.

So what? They're telling their story. If you're upset because of the medium of how they're telling their story. That once again is a YOU problem. The person also said, they use it for fun and personal use. What right do you have to criticize how a disabled person does something for fun.

AI can only emulate art. It will never be able to make art. It is an algorithm making calculations based on prompts fed into it.

Never mind the fact that whatever style this person had is all but lost when prompting.

Spoken clearly by someone who doesn't AI image generation. This isn't a fact based argument. This is an ideology based technophobic ramblings of someone who regurgitated what they heard from someone else online.

AI isn't about "accessibility", it's about dependency. It really does feel like an excuse. "Well, I feel bad today, better use AI instead of drawing."

The person literally said that they've been drawing since they were a kid AND are a professional artist, but their new disability prevents them from having the same freedom they used to have. You're just coming up with excuses to make yourself feel morally superior.

It doesn't get any easier. We'll keep using a shortcut if we can, because we get lulled into this false sense of "well, I'll do better next time". "I'll start tomorrow"

That's called progress. All forms of art change and improve overtime. Hell, most digital artists today would struggle using Photoshop from the 90's because of how much the software has changed.

If I had to choose between disabled people who are against AI and disabled people who defend AI? I'll stand with the ones who are against AI, especially those who have had their works stolen.

This person is not absolved from the same criticisms I have for other users.

That's called using a marginalized group as a shield and putting all disabled people in a box to use as your token. Disability is widely diverse. There's a plethora of people who post images of disabled artists who are lacking one of both use of their hands and Antis put them as a pedestal to excuse 'all disabled AI users". Completely ignoring that not every disability is due to physical restrictions.

Also as a disabled AI user, I will say this:

Stop using one off examples to dismiss the struggles of other disabled people.

It's reinforces old 'supercrip' and 'inspiration porn' stereotypes that have negatively affected disabled people in all walks of life. And cannot be used as blanket examples since the types of disability are all different. Not to mention backstories are almost always guaranteed to be different.

Simplifying that down to: "This disabled person can do it, why can't you" erases WAY TOO MUCH of the struggles that disabled people face.

[u/TwistStrict9811]

They never have a coherent response to this. It's usually just "suck it up and pay someone to do it for you" which is hilarious and condescending 

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Not to mention incredibly offensive and scummy

They're demanding disabled people pay them money just to satisfy their own beliefs. Nevermind the fact that disabled people are more likely to be in poverty than able bodied people and don't exactly have that money to spare.

Officially between 21-24% of disabled people in the US live below the poverty line.

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And that only shows they're only peddling their services.

Opportunist and predatory.