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AI image generation isn't even enabling anyone to make art anyway. Asking someone or something to make something for you isn't creating. Commissioning artists, it's still their art. Prompting an AI, it's the generator's image. So it's not making art any more accessible, anyway.

statements about accessibility are just using the language of social justice to put a veneer of moral superiority over "I can't stand to be challenged in any way"

yes fuck adobe all the way, esp as they begin to taint their tools with ai horseshit

Yeah like- unlike physical exercise, there is a reason behind it "taking a fuckin century to get good lmao" Its art Yeah I learned blockbench in about an hour or so but its yOur problem now >:3

"Cooking should be accessible" is what I think when I hear that. Does someone watch a video on the 'best sushi/steak/whatever restaurant in the world' and turn around and think "cooking is not something I could ever do"?

I think this is also ab what ppl consider art to be, a lot of ppl have a very narrow vision of what *is* art, they think art = classics or illustration work, when that simply isn't true. What ppl want nowadays is to be famous online for something, when this misses the point entirely of what art is

Art is far more accessible than any work that involves standing, walking, manual labor, even technology. It’s one of the most accessible activities available to a person, because there are so many avenues/media to execute it. There’s a reason why so many disabled people fall into art.

what i thought when i got my first point & shoot digital camera. it had so many features & filters on it that let me experiment with photography in ways that would've needed multiple pro cameras not too long ago

The notion of what is/isn't "art" has been so thoroughly gate-kept by Society and I hate that people give in to the BS that you have to be published/famous/dead or even "good" to be an artist/writer/whatevz. Pour your heart and soul and trauma and joy and imagination into it and it *is* "real art".

this is an incredibly kind & compassionate take, i think: one that genuinely acknowledges that yeah, not everyone can make art in specific ways, but art is so vast & myriad that everyone has A way. i am really sorry you've experienced a loss of one, & really think you've nailed this issue perfectly.

Followed. Love love love all of this.

this!! i stopped being able to draw at any length years ago because of the debilitating nerve pain it causes, but there are still other ways i find to create art and express myself. "art" in its existence is not nearly as rigid as people want it to be.

You can literally start by taking a single sheet of copier paper and doodle on your breaks at work.

Every word from these advocates rings just as hollow as the last. Either its someone whos unwilling to learn and deluded about these progams making them real "artists" or someone completely devoided of life in their eyes trying to ensure the most advantagous position to destroy culture for profit.

You can find way to get paper and pencils FOR FREE. I have plenty of pens I was gifted in some shop or some event with a logo on them, because they are cheap and given away for free. Also if you use AI you can afford a device to use it on so you very damn well can afford 5$ of sketchbook and crayons

People just don't want to do anything they have to put actual effort into these days. Art is so accessible, especially these days with improved technology and with all the different mediums it's possible to use, but people see the difficult aspect of learning and just equate that to inaccessibility.

XP Pen truly changing the game. Wacom's low end models start at like $40 now but XP Pen's start at half of that. They're for "gaming" but they function just as well as my old Wacom Bamboo did when I bought that and are stilly fully pressure sensitive.

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

This mentality really is everywhere. When I used to teach, some students thought that someone getting extra time on a test was an "advantage," that it made the test "easier" for them. Except that more time on a test doesn't make it any easier. That's not what accessibility/accommodations are about.

"But you don't understand! I want to create hyper-realistic, detailed art that everyone will praise me for and give me money! Not real art at a beginner level like I could actually produce. Time and practice? What's that?"

I think GenAI art is more of a "commisioning" to a robot and database of noises thousands of times, rather than art accesibility

Are you really saying that if someone practices an art for 10+ years, and enjoys the heck out of all of it, the end result wouldn't count?

The time and materials needed to learn and do art should be accessible. The process of art should be accessible, not the outcomes.

I agree with your point, I just mean now more than ever there are fewer boundaries. there were obstacles in the past to art making (even to charcoal and chalk) on the basis of race, sex, and class that were not only over come then, but also frankly don't exist in western imperial countries today.

There are as many forms as art as there are people imo - and every distinct medium is customizable in endless ways! Hell, just sitting in an empty room and humming a little tune could be considered art too. Figuring out HOW to create something is as much art as the thing itself!

This. Art of all forms is something learned, no one becomes great overnight but practicing is so so important. I used to be able to draw but w rheumatoid arthritis my hands are kinda fucked up. I ended up preferring writing anyway, and im better at it, but it took practice.