u/Logical-Stage-7905

So around 3 or 4 months ago we started working on a project about a fictional ancient country, almost like Ancient Greece. For the first 2 months everything was going as planned, until teachers slowly started to dislike our hard-worked drawings and handmade digital art (I was making the map of the country in Inkarnate, for example). THEN the teacher told us to use ONLY AI to make the images because according to them, AI will do the job "better". 10 days later we had around 20 AI-generated images and AI VIDEOS!? AND HOW DID THE TEACHERS ACCEPT THOSE DESPITE HAVING THE AI WATERMARK??? That part made me so pissed and I slowly started to care less about the project progressively, since I knew human art will be rejected...

2 weeks ago we started training for the school assembly, only to realize that the presentations were also REPLACED WITH AI AS WELL! Each slide showed the AI watermark, but they took it to the stage anyway, pretending this is human-made work... But it was a funny experience though, since we were all laughing at some weird AI-generated images and sometimes even text that made our day.

When the day of the assembly eventually came, I knew this project would be pointless, and it was. Out of the expected guests, less than half showed up and the assembly lasted for 30 minutes, instead of 90...

When the assembly ended, we were handed out some AI-generated certificates that I hid somewhere in my house due to sheer embarrassment.

This text isn't meant to hate on my school, but to notify people that AI is not meant for making stuff for you, but rather helping you.

Our class spent around three months working on a project for a school assembly. The project was about creating a fictional ancient country, kind of similar to Ancient Greece, so it involved actual thought, creativity, writing, planning, and preparation... OR DID IT?

When the day came, a huge part of that work got replaced with AI-generated text, presentations, images, and videos. And the worst part is that the AI content wasn’t even good. There were grammatical mistakes, weird phrasing, blurry slides, and parts that just looked rushed or badly made.

During practice days, some of us were literally laughing at parts of it, especially the AI-generated images and videos, because they looked so awkward and low quality.

The assembly itself was supposed to last 1 hour and 30 minutes, but it ended in about 30 minutes, which made me pissed.

Even the certificates handed out at the end looked AI-generated, which somehow made the whole experience feel even more fake...

What makes me angry is not just that AI was used. It’s that months of actual student work were pushed aside and replaced with low-quality AI slop that clearly wasn’t even checked properly. We spent real time making something original, and it felt like none of that mattered in the end. I honestly did not expect this behaviour from my school. I’m not against AI as a tool, but this wasn’t responsible use of AI. This was replacing real students' effort with rushed AI garbage and expecting everyone to just accept it.

Does this kind of thing happen in other schools too, or is this just really bad management?