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jacintha azalea's avatar

Also I want to address the "disability accessible art" argument. I'd rather see a disabled person experiment different ways to create art despite their circumstances, than sit and let the ai do the work for them. Like if someone with a limb difference created a painting; even if they don't intend on the painting having a meaning behind it, the existence of the painting itself symbolises their human endurance and creativity. Ai cannot replicate that.

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ayan artan's avatar

❗️❗️❗️

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auna's avatar

a while ago i saw a video about an artist (i don’t remember what condition they had specifically) who didn’t have use of their hands and instead used their mouth to move the brush to make art!

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jacintha azalea's avatar

Amazing🥰

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ennui_go's avatar

Exhibit: Chuck Close.

AI could definitely produce an image “in the style of”, but a great deal of what drove his work was the effort and innovation intrinsic to his particular disability.

The aesthetic output of his work was the bi-product of a process that was specific to his body.

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jacintha azalea's avatar

It can replicate the style, but not the process or the heart that went into it. That's my point. Art isn't just about style.

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Debbie Liu's avatar

I had a preschool child in my class who said he "couldn't paint". I showed him a photograph of a armless kid who used his feet to paint. I said, if he can do it, you can. the kid then joyously painted every day. I'm glad you brought this issue up.

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jacintha azalea's avatar

That's lovely. I brought it up being disabled myself, not physically but still.

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Elle's avatar

clicked on this SO FAST

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ayan artan's avatar

just sprouted wings and an ego the size of london. j'adore angel 💕💕

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Elle's avatar

i know ur saying that to me and not griffin and i approve of this favoritism

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ayan artan's avatar

to be loved is to be known lol he's lovely but ur everything 🙂‍↕️

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Emy Vee's avatar

I dont get

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Julianne Hues's avatar

This is exactly the piece I have been waiting for. Thank you for writing it.

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briffin glue's avatar

me too lol

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ayan artan's avatar

great minds, etc etc

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jacintha azalea's avatar

Same, saw the notification was from you them immediately clicked.

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Aman Mohammed's avatar

The rise of AI writers/artists is scary considering the fact that writing is one of the most human ways of expressing emotions. Language is culture, words are art in on itself so it’s very insulting to call yourself one when you can’t even appreciate the beauty language as a whole is. AI artists are never fulfilled because that don’t know the feeling of creating something wholly unique on your own and that saddens me

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nolo's avatar

i’ve never really left a comment on here but you’re one of my favourites on here. it’s like you knew i needed these words. i was in a meeting listening to someone talk about a tool to “humanise” the work they did with ai and i was simply dumbfounded. how are you using ai to do the work for you, then using it again to “humanise” the work? what is it that said person even does? is it truly “working smart” if you aren’t even doing anything? what’s smart about any of it? seeing your post made me happy to know there’s still people that aren’t falling for none of it. brilliant piece as always.

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ayan artan's avatar

this idea that the only things worth worshipping are productivity and ease is so deeply macabre. friction makes us resilient and learned. i'm honoured you've left this comment despite never having done so before; feeling very smug 🤭💗

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David's avatar

God, thank you sooo sooo much for this. Thank you thank you thank you.

It’s been a bleak year but the last couple of days have been especially difficult. Your work brings me so much joy. It understands my anger, and I’m grateful. Thanks again.

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ayan artan's avatar

this means everything. humbled you took the time to read xx

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

well fuck me, ayan. I wish a bitch would try to plagiarize this.

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ayan artan's avatar

teehee 🤭 love you darling

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Mildred Locke's avatar

This was perfect, thank you for writing it.

It's been really off putting lately as a small writer on here who hasn't found much success (not that it's stopping me), to keep coming across viral posts that have been so obviously written by ChatGPT, and yet the people in the comments are eating it up, completely unaware. I think there needs to be more education on how to spot the signs, because I thought it was glaringly obvious, but apparently it fools a lot of people.

I'm always tempted to say something in the comments but I'm afraid of getting piled on. There is also that fear that some people may actually just be writing in the same way that ChatGPT does because that's how they got started, or something (doesn't make it okay).

Anyway, I enjoyed this and subscribed!

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Aaryn Hale's avatar

"making art is hard. there is no cheat code that would make it easy. excavating the soul should be hard; it would be alarming if it wasn’t. the satisfaction you feel, however, when you see the words trooping along the page exactly as you dreamed them up, melodic and honest; it is heaven made real."

Fabulously well done.

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Amani Hope's avatar

The people getting rich off LLM’s and the stolen work of millions of writers have created propaganda about AI with their marketing—that’s it’s an advancement like “the printing press” which is objectively false—we need essays like this to remind everyone of the truth, to make sure the narrative is correct, to make sure young creatives don’t accidentally give away their souls

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Zizzy's avatar

what a masterpiece!!!

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Whitney's avatar

Funny enough their connection is already being cut. They WILL be priced out of that which they have given away and we ARE better than them for not being left completely inept by the looming paywall. And that piece was ridiculous. A whole opinion piece but I don't even know where you end and the clanker begins.

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eryn's avatar

as someone studying law for AI regulation: this is amazing

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ayan artan's avatar

thank you for reading but omg thank you SO much more for actively engaging with work that might end up protecting us. doing God's work.

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Nur Imanina's avatar

Those closing lines 🙌

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thewriterlauren's avatar

THIS is art. No hyperbole, this essay is pure art

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Eeva's avatar

jesus christ this is amazing. it baffles me that some people don’t see the issue in ai generated writing. you can’t imitate having a soul.

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Daniel José Older's avatar

HELL YEAH EVERY WORD 🔥🔥🔥

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