Artist rights ARE worker rights. They are not some elite class it’s okay to steal from, and none of these companies should be allowed to deflect criticism by pretending they’re benevolently levelling the playing field for the poor and the disabled, who they stole from in the first fucking place.

I worked for several years, professionally, teaching kids with learning disabilities how to use assistive tech. Typing skills, text to speech, programs for organizing thought, etc. Suggesting LLMs are the same thing is gross and insulting to writers and artists with disabilities.

What’s ableism is suggesting if you have a disability you can’t write without plagiarism.

I have a few options

Everyone who opposes Project 2025 needs to make their voice heard. Nobody deserves to live under the rule of a dictatorship who forces the rules of one religion on everyone else. We must stand up and oppose/fight against religious nationalism of any kind.