u/Latte_Da_cat

DISCLAIMER: this is a sample size of like 10 teens. This is not intended to be a complete generalization or even something that's true, I just wanted to share something I've seen for pretty much since AI came out.

So I have quite a large friend group, and there's been a pattern I've been noticing:

-there are three "artists" that bring their sketchbooks everywhere and claim they are the "artists" of the group, however their art is genuinely dogshit. I don't tell them that irl of course but they have no concept of anatomy, no concept of shading, no concept of color theory, no concept of "studying fundamentals", and one of them doesn't even have any characters. They are all in math workshop, which basically means they are so bad at math they had to give up their elective period for a second math class. One of them, the one that has no characters, also heavily struggles in science, today she got a 19/30 on a unit test. They all absolutely DESPISE AI. All they've been talking about during lunch was how we should all start calling AI "Computer Rendered Artificial Pictures" or C.R.A.P. Very original I know. That's literally all they talked about. For the entire 35 minute period. Just repeating it over and over again like some sort of mantra. It got to the point where I asked them to stop and they looked at me like I was insulting their bloodline. The people are mentioned above are all C+ to B+ students, two have art as their elective, one has drama/acting. One of them has a pottery class(?) on the weekend but otherwise no extracurriculars.

-I'm in advanced math, which basically means we are a grade ahead. The people there are all neutral or pro AI, most don't care or use it sometimes as a tutor. Most of the people there, including me, are A to A+ students with an occasional B+. Most are also not artists, however quite a few are in advanced (for a teenager anyway) software engineering as their elective, including me. Most of us participate in AMS a few grades above what we are in, and have gotten at least a few awards, among other extracurriculars. I personally do coding class (along with the software engineering. Both my parents have a masters in computer science lol), flute, piano, art (specifically graphite/pencil sketching, been going on for 8 years now), and choir. One of my tablemates does gymnastics, artistic swimming, ballet, specifically geometry class, and violin. Again the people I've mentioned above are all pro/neutral

-In software engineering we frequently use AI, we legit have like special accounts where generative AI is unbanned just so we can learn to use it effectively. In art elective you aren't allowed to use your chromebooks at all for some reason, according to my friends. Like no googling references no anything. Besides generative AI is blocked on our school chromebooks anyway, not even the AI overview is there, so I don't know why they would need to disallow them to use chromebooks?

-The 3 artists I mentioned above are all American, born in America raised in a very American way if you know what I mean. Most of the people in advanced math or Asian, mostly Indian and Chinese with the occasional Korean or Japanese person. In my math class of 29, there is only 1white person and they are Russian, not American. Not trying to be racist but like, you see what I am seeing right?

I'm not going insane am I-

Just curious. Turns out neurodivergents out number neruotypicall people here 10:1

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