#503

Poking around the onlines, it becomes clear how some extremely clever fuck, a pastiche of LLM-adopters (indistinguishable at times from the tools they no doubt used to assist in the composition of their rhetorical volleys), could easily be all "how can you hate AI when it helps disabled people reach for their dreams? ableist much? also you are a gatekeeper" when reacting to ideas along the lines of yesterday's post.

Which might scare some teenagers and the feckless, who have not had much time to really, truly think about their convictions or lack the conviction to have convictions in the first place. Being well past grown, though, and having worked and lived with disabled artists my entire adult life, I know that this is more than likely a clever rhetorical maneuver rather than any particular concern for disabled people and their access. Disabled or differently-abled people are known for their artistry perhaps to the point of being stereotyped about it. Have I listened to a diverse range of disabled artists tell me about some of their challenges across a broad range of challenges and disciplines? Have I marveled at their resourcefulness, patience, vitality, and ingenuity in creating art whenever possible, however possible? To the point of exhaustion, frankly. So the prior lack of LLM assistance has not been a real barrier as you are framing it, out where people are actually making art. 

The entire point of what I was saying is that the only gates are in your mind. I am not the one putting gates anywhere! This I swear. Barriers, gates, elitism, your perception of "writer's privilege"--what the fuck?--this is all literally in your own mind. Well, they are real as it relates to the acquisition of capital, clout, whatever else, but nothing can stop you from writing.

*

Maybe you should get an LLM to read my last post for you and reframe it for you in a way that is best and most accessible for you. 

See? I am in fact extremely open to using technology to bridge an ability gap. And not literally like the bad guy from the first Incredibles movie, which is what you guys all seem like when you talk. How that isn't a massively viral meme yet, I'll never know. It's exactly the kind of cheesy dotted line people love to draw and beat to death. Maybe it happened and I missed it. Maybe the movie was a response to the discussion in the first place. I digress. Movies are very good. Syndrome is the guy. Man. The parallel really is kind of absurdly on-point. 

*

Anyway! Whole moral is that if you suck, the LLM can't help you. That's what you can't talk your way around and that is what infuriates you. That people aren't falling to their knees in order to suck your dick because you "beat" "writer's privilege". That the problem, as I have stated and as unfortunately cannot be avoided, lies within.

What the fuck, yo? What the hell are you talking about? If you can type the words "writer's privilege", then in fact, you have that. It's called literacy. I kind of wish you were using it better! Also have some fucking dignity.

*

Fun fact: wrote this yesterday. It just didn't seem like the right April Fool's Day to post anything at all. Man, that so-called holiday really grates my ass.

--JL