I'm assuming most of the people who follow me are (1) disabled and (2) generally against 'AI', but not necessarily someone who Did Art who had a disability render them physically unable to Do Art.

Put another way, it might be narratively inconvenient, but you need to be prepared to accept that there are people with disabilities you might not have who are also going to use services you consider to be unethical! (This was already the case before LLMs became commercial products!)

On one side, the most insufferable people in the world are straining to find a sympathetic use case for AI, and abusing disabled narratives for that end.

But the other side, which I am more aligned with, rejects that entirely. But in doing so, that rejection takes real people with real disabilities and labels them imaginary.

You can be anti-AI without taking a stance rooted in erasure!

@VA3DSO Yep, same here.

In the early 2010s I was aware of the sex slang but not the ableist meaning when I asked my drafting instructor, who was paralyzed and used a wheelchair, if I could download and use GIMP for something.

Having had never heard of this obscure piece of software, he very understandably was not happy with that!