With the rise in AI use since 2022, students have frequently used this technology to complete school assignments. However, while some students think that they have found some ingenious way to cheat the system, slowly but surely, they are succumbing to the will of AI. In the past few weeks, many WCHS students’ minds have seemed to lose functionality as a result of the reliance on these tools.
“Just yesterday, I heard somebody ask ChatGPT how to put food in their mouths properly,” WCHS sophomore Josiah George said. “In addition, yesterday, during lunch, I witnessed a group of about four students asking AI how to play catch in the gym.”
With this “AI Plague” rendering the minds of much of the student population dull, many staff members are looking for solutions to this issue. However, this search has not gone nearly as smoothly as expected.
“Honestly, I do not think there is a solution to this problem,” George said. “One of the methods I have seen the staff employ is taking students’ phones at the beginning of the day and keeping them in containers. Also, they are making students afflicted with this illness go outside for thirty minutes daily in the first half of lunch. To tell you the truth, I think these methods are only serving to worsen this issue, as every ailed student has appeared to yearn even more for AI after these measures were implemented.”
Parents are dumbfounded and have no idea how this could have possibly happened to their children. Most parents are solely blaming WCHS for the start and spread of this plague. Although the school system, while playing a part, has not been the only factor causing the quick spread of this condition among students.
“Based on what I have seen, the primary cause for this plague has no doubt been AI use for schoolwork,” George said. “But another key player in the expansion of this plague has been the large number of influencers endorsing the use of AI for small or even downright silly things, which one should take the liberty of figuring out for themselves. For example, how to add someone’s phone number as a contact and how to ‘safely’ turn on a sink.”
There is one clear way to stop the spread, but it would be impossible to achieve in this day and age. That measure would be to deactivate AI tools from all WCHS students’ devices, academic and personal, for a period of time, giving these students a much-needed detox from the constant AI exposure.
“At this point, I believe that we need AI, for better or for worse,” George said. “It’s already so far embedded into our daily lives, I think it might be for the best to leave this thing alone, and just pray that it goes away with time. Who knows, maybe even AI will think of a way to put an end to the plague, wouldn’t that be ironic?”
