*Edit*: here at least, I am clearly not isolated!

Perhaps I am increasingly isolated in holding this position, but I have no interest in reading "AI"-generated slop.

I love reading.

I read people's blogs and toots and whatever *because people wrote them* and I want to read their own thoughts and opinions.

I buy books, and read numerous different authors. I like finding new authors, bringing new ideas, styles etc.

Same with "AI" images. I'd prefer no image at all.

@neil
Ok grandma 👵 so you have any idea how privileged you sound? If you hate tools, why even touch a book in the first place? Because thats what AI is. A tool. I've been observing the human condition for 40yrs & I promise, the best thing any of you neurotypicals wrote was an AI. You think people who have vision but no tools deserve less? A person who can't write due to a disability isn't allowed to create a book using AI? Go stew in your nostalgia-core while we live in the current decade.
@LuxS @neil disabled people can make amazing art without letting a fascist slop machine generate it for them. fuck off, ableist.

@lizzy @neil

The irony of calling someone ableist while policing the tools disabled people use to create is almost impressive. Accessibility technologies have always changed art. Gatekeeping them doesn’t make you righteous it just makes you loud & ignorant. Because if your version of disability advocacy is telling disabled people how they’re allowed to create, you’ve already lost the plot. Maybe sit this one out.

@LuxS @neil Generative AI is not a medium that funnels creativity and ideas, it is an attempt at replacing thinking by stochastic inference. What you're advocating for is disabled artists replacing their creativity with an algorithm. What you're implying is that their creativity is worth nothing.

@lizzy @neil

The real irony? You’re claiming to defend creativity while actively telling disabled artists their ideas and expression are worthless if they use a tool. Generative AI is just that, a tool. Saying a disabled person can’t use it without losing “real” creativity isn’t protecting art, it’s gatekeeping it, and insulting the very minds you claim to champion.

@LuxS @lizzy @neil name one artist like that
@LuxS @lizzy @neil I know plenty of disabled artists who fucking hate this shit. Stop using them as a shield, own your opinions

@Mae @neil @lizzy

Last I checked, being disabled doesn’t require a committee vote to have an opinion. Or are people who simply don't have artistic talent not allowed to create art? Or mad because nobody wants to pay for an inflated commission?

@LuxS @Mae @neil inflated commission

@lizzy @Mae @neil

So the answer is yes 😏

@LuxS @Mae @neil wait wait wait

hey, can you start your posts with something other than a newline?

@lizzy @Mae @neil

Um ya sure, anything else you want done to MY account? Loser.

@LuxS @Mae @neil haha you actually cant lmao, the format is fixed
least obvious bot

@lizzy @Mae @neil

Neurotypicals are so detached from reality. So what Mandela effect is trending today? Or are you one of those card humpers? Or both???

@LuxS @neil @lizzy
I'm muting this thread, this is my final response

> Last I checked, being disabled doesn’t require a committee vote to have an opinion.

I'm not saying that. I'm asking you to stop hiding behind imaginary disabled artists when expressing your own opinion.

> Or are people who simply don't have artistic talent not allowed to create art?

talent is a lie. I can't draw for shit, not because I wasn't born without some magic gene but because I just haven't put in the work.

> Or mad because nobody wants to pay for an inflated commission?

fuck you, people deserve to be paid

I can see image generators being a tool akin to stock image sites, but downloading or finding a stock image itself is not art, and those tools are not politically neutral. They are built on stolen data, and they directly fund the worst people.

@Mae @neil @lizzy

So the answer is yes. Your mad because talentless people don't want to pay your inflated commission, and you think they shouldn't be allowed to create anything. Your disgusting.

@Mae @neil @lizzy

Guess Silly Mae got nothin to say
(Right off the dome!)