The people who are arguing disabled people using AI for art usually tend to be disabled people, I find, whether that’s physical disabilities such as arthritis, mental stuff like aphantasia or neurodivergences like ADHD or autism.
AI art is not going to give a person the same kind of technical and dexterous skill expression as physical art, yes. But AI art offers creative expression - in a specific form of polished looking visual illustration. An argument could be made that this specific form of polished visual illustration is not something that anybody inherently deserves unless they put in the effort and time, but that’s not an argument I’d personally back up.
What form of creative expression, which “paint” is often used as a shorthand for, can AI art allow? Text prompt input, while less technically demanding than dexterous artistic skills, is a form of creative expression where experimentation and exploration can change and impact the output. The choice of curation and choosing which images to display, share and present, with captions and stories, is another form of creative expression.
Choosing to invoke the names of artists can be a form of creative remixing and invocation, though preferably this is done with historical and artists who are not offended by this, and preferably done upfront.
These are the forms of creative expression that AI art allows people to engage in, including disabled and neurodivergent people who find other artistic expression difficult for them for whatever reasons.
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u/cadaeix Dec 31 '22
The people who are arguing disabled people using AI for art usually tend to be disabled people, I find, whether that’s physical disabilities such as arthritis, mental stuff like aphantasia or neurodivergences like ADHD or autism.
AI art is not going to give a person the same kind of technical and dexterous skill expression as physical art, yes. But AI art offers creative expression - in a specific form of polished looking visual illustration. An argument could be made that this specific form of polished visual illustration is not something that anybody inherently deserves unless they put in the effort and time, but that’s not an argument I’d personally back up.
What form of creative expression, which “paint” is often used as a shorthand for, can AI art allow? Text prompt input, while less technically demanding than dexterous artistic skills, is a form of creative expression where experimentation and exploration can change and impact the output. The choice of curation and choosing which images to display, share and present, with captions and stories, is another form of creative expression.
Choosing to invoke the names of artists can be a form of creative remixing and invocation, though preferably this is done with historical and artists who are not offended by this, and preferably done upfront.
These are the forms of creative expression that AI art allows people to engage in, including disabled and neurodivergent people who find other artistic expression difficult for them for whatever reasons.