Noone said you can't use it, but you really think you should be entitled to make money as an artist? You can literally get a job as an AI prompt writer/engineer. But what you want is to be recognized as an artist.
Fine, then create a bunch of AI art, frame it, and take it to a gallery or to a market. Put it in a portfolio and display it on a website. Go network with other artists in your area and promote your work as art, see where it gets you. I'm genuinely curious.
Upholding the petty bourgeois artist's gatekeeping, requiring "real" artists to go the right school, know the right people, drink the right wine, attend the right parties and hate the right things. Classist ✔
A lot of people here struggle with MH and some have overcome and found success. Maybe don't be so quick to label others as chauvinistic for pointing out that your idea is a priori nonsense that has little to no basis in reality. The fact remains that your struggles don't prevent you from picking up a paintbrush or a pencil or a mouse or whatever. Quadrapalegics still paint landscapes, Chuck Close is a world famous portrait artist who is face blind.
Calling neurodivergence a mental health issue, "pick yourself up by the boot straps, Everyone can overcome their limitations because a few people did." Ableist ✔
But the value is created for capitalists to suppress wages of creatives and force people into unemployment.
Blaming tools for the crimes of capitalism. Ludditry ✔