“Spring Dew,” by Lila Crowley, 15, North Middlesex. Young Writers Project is a creative, online community of teen writers and visual artists that started in Burlington in 2006. Each week, VTDigger publishes the writing and art of young Vermonters who post their work on youngwritersproject .org, a free, interactive website for youth, ages 13-19. To find out more, please go to youngwritersproject.org or contact Executive Director Susan Reid at [email protected]; (802) 324-9538. AI: The Worst Part Sophia Brooks, 15, Westford The worst partis everything’s fake.I don’t know what’s really real anymore …Art used to be about your emotions, now it’s about who’s best.Writing used to be about expressing yourself through your words, now it’s about who can write using the biggest words.Photography used to be about capturing a precious moment in your life, and now it’s about what looks the best.School used to be about learning, now it’s just about grades.We use AI, not to learn, not to get better, but to pretend we are the best.We are smart enough to create AI, but dumb enough to depend on it. Read the story on VTDigger here: Young Writers Project: ‘AI: The Worst Part’. ...read more read less