Fight Robots with Stories! ... Yeah! (Contest)

Yeah, this is actually a different contest than the poetry one I just posted... what can I say, I'm on a roll...



My sister teaches creative writing and English 101 at the collegiate level, in a couple semesters she's seen kids go from being able to write, to not being able to even form email responses @_@ plagiarism and AI is running rampant, people are losing the ability to write right under our noses! And it makes me worried for the future.

So I want to read more about the dangers of AI and loss of human creativity, to help foster a culture of awareness, resistance, and resilience against the dangerous aspects of AI... (yes I know it has some positives... we can critique things that have positives!) But poetry isn't the only creative form that can be used to fight against the loss of creativity, we can also use prose! And I'd absolutely love to read what the people of YWS come up with.

Your prompt for this contest: Write a short story about a dystopian future where AI has been left to run rampant... what happens to writers? what happens to creativity? what happens to stories?

> You may absolutely take and leave aspects of the prompt if you have ideas that go with this theme, roll with it!
> Have fun, don't stress, just write! I'm eager to read what you have to write!
> PLEASE WRITE! I will honestly be so happy to read your work!

Rules:
To submit an entry: Submit the short story through the publishing center, and leave a link in this thread before July 31, 11:30 PM EST.

Moderators and regular members, new members and old members, are all welcome and encouraged to participate!

You can submit as many entries as you like.

Be sure to use content warnings if your entry contains mature material.

Do not use AI to write you entry in any capacity.

Prizes:
All participants will receive 250 points for participating!
The winner will receive 1000 total points and a one of a kind bird doodle designed by me and I will review their story in the literary center too.

* Note this contest must have at least 3 entries for a winner to be chosen, I will try to complete judging by August 15 if there are 3 entries. If there are less than 3 entries, I will not declare a winner.*

spot! (also this contest theme is great idea!)

Update: I GOT IT IN, HERE --> ⱧØⱠⱠØ₩ | ₴Ɏ₦₮ⱧɆ₮ł₵

Content Warning for: mild language

Full disclosure, I am not fully confident in it, I fear I may have been too liberal with the cuts I made or didn't tidy up the "big reveal" enough, buuuut I was running out of time and at this point just said "whatever, in it goes!" So, uh, fingers crossed! XD

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In true people fashion it is unedited - A Thousand Moments

Thank you @Messenger @goodolnoah @Ravena @ToastK for submitting your stories! I look forward to reading them and will let you all know when they've been judged! I really appreciate you taking the time to participate.

Will be announcing the winner to this tomorrow, I thank you sincerely for your patience!