Anecdotally, I’ve heard that many high schoolers hate AI slop, with “AI” frequently being used as a pejorative to describe low effort, low quality productions lacking sincerity or ingenuity.

Granted, “high schoolers” aren’t a monolith, but I don’t buy that the future is already written, and I’d urge everyone to fight back and remain optimistic instead of giving in to dark visions of what might be.

They regularly do

I have some Goldenrod plants in the backyard where every summer a few hundred 5-banded Wasps congregate. The males mob a few plants to show themselves off, covering every leaf and branch and stem until they’re weighing the whole plant down, while the females buzz about checking out the dudes to decide who to mate with.

I’m grateful to support that colony; they’ve been on and around the neighborhood longer than I have, and honestly, they’re pretty chill. They’re not going to attack unless you do first, and they’re pollinators.

And for those people who view a mob of several hundred wasps on a single plant as being “gross”, just chill. They got a right to life like we do <3