Raw LLM Responses

It’s been the hypocrisy and self indulgence in the reactions that have bothered me most, and I’m nothing but grateful for and in awe of it **as it relates to art**, especially as a disabled person. - We have way, way more important things to worry about regarding AI, and I have seen few if any of the people up in arms about their art being “stolen” enraged about things like facial recognition based surveillance/brutality, automated recognition of whether or not someone is “correctly” participating in a governmental system, smeckshully Ab—sing people especially celebrities with deepfakes, creating propaganda, etc etc. Yeah, multiple things can be true at once, but I’ve seen a whole lot of insecure commotion about “theft” being the greatest ill of AI while totally disregarding the fact that it will and already is being used to harm and k—- marginalized communities around the world - It removes a physical barrier to access creating whether that’s for people who are disabled/poor/etc and already artists, or for those struggling with mobility/space/financial constraints who want to explore creating art - I haven’t seen a single “real artist” just give up all of their materials and process for AI, it’s just incorporated as yet another tool - Absolutely every “good” piece of art that has even been publicly shown anywhere and gained popularity has been copied and learned from. We go to museums to sketch, we read through books of the artists we admire, we learn by copying art, period. Every single artist has learned to make art by viewing other art and on some level if it’s subconscious knowledge from all of it. I think it’s not only hypocritical but extremely selfish to say that one has the right to take all that knowledge and access but then not want anyone else to have access to theirs. A bot is no different from the fact that any other human being can go online/to your gallery/whatever and copy/learn from your art style. - AI can’t and won’t ever replace the “human touch” of a sentient person who’s experienced a whole life who ultimately relates their art back to that. ALL art is derivative, nothing is original, the only thing making you unique in the first place is *you*. The people who want *you* will always be there for it, and if they aren’t and they go for a mediocre machine made replica instead, they clearly weren’t interested in you/your art in the first place. I’ve been a full time working artist for a little over the last decade-ish until recently having to stop because my chronic illness has gotten to a point where I can’t function. I wake up every day grateful and hopeful that even as I continue to lose both my mobility and vision, I’ll still have access to bring to life the ideas in my head, even with no tools in a hospital bed. It saves hours of grueling pain and energy I don’t have in the sketch process, and allows me to confidently dive into creating what I can manage. I don’t think I’m special, I know full well and readily acknowledge that I am an artist because of the work of the artists that came before me and the currently working artists I admire the new work of every day. I’ll gladly share any part of my process with anyone who asks, because even if they want to then try to replicate it exactly, and hey maybe they’ll even do it objectively better, that’s fine. I think at the end of the day it’s a confidence issue, not a practical issue. This is not the same as someone literally copy and pasting one’s art onto a t shirt to be mass marketed and produce millions of dollars, it’s a machine learning like a human does. Acting like this is the most grievous offense of technology that’s already harming an incalculable amount of people is at best tremendously ignorant. The more people focus on bettering not only their art, but their emotional relationships to their art and fellow artists, ESPECIALLY if they choose to share it with the world, the better off we’ll all be.