I was plagirized at High School

Dear Everyone who reads this entry:

It's barely Tuesday (for me, at least, im writing this at 3 AM as how Mitski would say) and yet my whole week feels ruined since last Friday due to my classmates plagirazation.

Context?

Let us say we have some sort of competitions days (2) at school, okay? let's say among those many competetions there was one relating to who could make up the better Sketch (comedy theatrical act btw), the theme given was Ancient Egypt (as you can tell from my description, i am autistic and have ADHD, Mythology, History, and Religion are my special interests, and at age 7 i had a minor hiperfixation on Ancient Egypt for like a month) currently i have forgotten plenty of my knowledge, but i still know some of the "basic" things, somehow, making me more knowledgeable on the topic, so i was helping on the artistic competitions i could.

the first script made was done with ChatGPT, that should have been my first red flag all along, i feel foolish for not seeing it.....two girls were in charge of coordinating the Sketch, so they were supposed to have a script....i was out aiding some classmates on recruiting other students for the competetions, when i arrived, the teacher of that period was talking to one of the girls and told her to let me give it a check (bc almost everyone at my high school knows i am the one to go for anything related to writing, drawing, or my humanistic interests), i noticed it was A.I, it was NOT hard to tell, she didn't even bother getting out of ChatGPT not erasing all those dumb placed emojis and MY WHOLE GRADE KNOWS HOW MUCH I DESPISE A.I......but well.....she is sort of new (classes begin at march, she arrived at March, she is not exactly new, and she had witnessed me dissing A.I and anyone who depends of it, im trying to be "kind" here, okay?) i check the script, read it all through, and.....well.....normally my criteria for writing (focused only when is something about an ancient civilization) is as following:

Historical figures

References to certain events of importance

Logical Story

Good Line of Narrative

Original work

Entertaining

Well Constructed Characters

Bonus Points if it's historically accurate, drawbacks if the mistakes are too constant and prominent.

Thing is, it was ChatGPT, therefore, the criteria is....well, it doesn not change actually, a comparison table between human vs A.I (on my point of view) shows that, while everything else in a human can fail, it will still be somehow original and have a certain logic, therefore they have those 2 points set no matter what, but A.I? due to it's nature not only is not original....it has 0 logic, the characters are hollow, and the narrative is worst than shit, making A.I begin with already 4 deducted points in comparison to a human who begins with 2 points of advantage.

i checked the script....and honestly? that first script might be the worst thing i read in years, it felt like a cheap copy of the documentary-like series "Cleopatra" of Netflix, but imagine it being taken of it's soul and being made into a 5-10 minute sketch, so yeah.....my distaste was visible to anyone on a 2-meter radius......so i not only "complained" and tried explaining why the script was wrong (even tho the girl would only say "but we don't have time and we have little kids that will act too) so? i did the logical thing, aka, If you want to complain and critize, offer a damn solution, don't be an asshole....so i did just that, offered writing her a quick script from scratch, there it came, 2 of the most AWFUL things i have heard in life.....

Frist being "Can you write like a romance between Cleopatra and the Pharaoh? like, since *Popular boy* and *Pretty and Kind Girl* of our class will act?"

My heart fell....not because i have had a crush on *Popular boy* for 3 years, nah, i always knew him and the girl (that i view as a good friend) were highly shipped in our grade, im not a jealous freak, if we ain't anything? i won't exactly care much about dumb teenage shipping (that i soon realized both don't really like), no, my heart fell....because they wanted to taint one of my favorite historical figures into a woman following a man around.....CLEOPATRA THE GREATEST PHARAOH OF EGYPT?!! so yeah....i got very upset very quickly......so? i nerded out in the most obnoxious tone i could, ans said to her.

"which Pharaoh? the only Pharaoh Cleopatra was with was her fucking brother, you want me to write that?" i kinda raised my voice at that, because dude, i know you love shipping those two classmates, but i will not taint one of my fav historical figures for your teenage love story-

so yeah, after a long discourse of Cleopatra's love life (messy one at that) was NOT the point of her history of life, i was walking at my desk, and secon worst thing i could hear was uttered by the other girl at charge:

"We need that script before tomorrow, you know?" (Said by girl who has seen me do written tests in 10 minutes and turn in extremely long essays in 30 min)

so i turned around (pissed off with them both already) and said "How long do you think it will take me to write a script? it's a sketch, how fucking long do you think it will take me?" 

she sort of backed down, sat at my desk with my phone, and wrote down through the next period, 45 minutes and my script was done, send it to one of the girls, and honestly? i felt proud, specially after sending it to my brother and have him (dude who loves saying mean things as love language) that my script was awesome.

to resume it to you all folks, basically:

(Context: everyone is revived for a storytelling)

Narrator tells the story of the Ancient Egypt, Cleopatra appears, proud of herself for making Egypt great, Narrator says hostory innacurate dumb things, Cleopatra corrects.

Tutankamon appears in the most famous Pharaohs section being followed around by undead fans, Cleopatra and Tut have a minor fight over which of them is most loved by the people.

Anubis appears to warn everyone to go back to ttheir tombs before Osiris knows they are gone (it's implied Anubis will snitch on them), everyone scatters around and the play ends with everyone returning to their tombs.

There's a lot of history jokes through the play, but i tried my best to make sure the joke came in quickly, so you laughed at the dumb and fun part without having much time to think about the nerdy parts.

Cleopatra was meant to act as a voice of truth with an Annabeth-like personality, charismatic kind of nerd, the kind you know is right, but still love to see her surrounded by idiots.

Tutankamon was meant to act sort of like Hawks, kinda like famous rich boy that KNOWS he is the absolute greatest thing and is fucking right, but that won't hesitate to compete with another great thing (Cleopatra) for that spot, even if simple made for a short school sketch, i still tried to give them some depth, throwing jabs like:


Cleo: "HE didn't live past 19!"

Tut: "But everyone loves me, unlike Julius Caesar's girlfriend over here!"

and there, their interaction is short, lively, but gives you a glimpse of who they are, Cleo knows Tut is not even an adult by her people's standards, Tut knows that while despective of her whole relationship with Julius, she will not be offended, Tut knows he is throwing a childish jab that Cleo would not take (and she doesn't).

i sent the script to one of the girls coordinating, she said she thought it was complicated (i checked with theater kids i know, and myself, the dialogues were short, and for the three main {Narrator, Cleo, Tut}it was meant to have certain memory reminders in different inmersive ways).

*Pretty and Kind Girl* requested to check the script, she liked it, even if she is very shy, she liked that her character got to be more fun and pushed her to act confident, though she didn't understand much of the jokes, but found it funny still, she suggested to send it to *Popular boy* and *Pop's friend* since those two would act too.

,since i was helping them paint something for a competition, i asked if they wer acting, *Pop's friend* lively said he wanted to be a slave or something like that *Popular boy* said they just told him to play a Pharaoh, never told him much, offered to let them check the script, they did, they found it quite fun too.

so far i was proud with my job so far....

until *Pretty and Kind girl* recieves a text with a different script from one of the coordinators, and they get confused, it was A.I, so i began ranting around to a friend of mine that was present, those doing artsy things at the classroom (*Popular Boy* his friend, *Pretty and Kind Girl* and her bestie, my friend) listened to my ranting, which consisted of insults to A.I and historical innacuracies....

*Pop's friend* was impressed i could detect A.I so far and discard it, when, usually, if shown something with A.I he accepts it as good enough (he literally said smt about that to *Popular boy*).

fast forward  to the third script.

They (The coordinators) said they wouldn't use my script, said it was TOO COMPLICATED, and boring......

The others had their opinions but agreed on the third script...i was not upset, i was like "okay, fair, you coordinate, you choose", until they made me check it....i recognized my writing in some fragments and was inmediately horrorified.....i did not finish reading when seeing my writing mixed with A.I

someone aske who would play Anubis, *Popular Boy* answered "Didn't *Icarus* say he would?" and i corrected and said "If you didn't found anybody else i would have played, but not with this, thank you very much everyone, i will not act on this script, i hope you have the best of luck, goodbye", and i stepped away to paint.

until, i began replaying everythings, i requested to the teacher (last period) to exit the classroom and go with the psychologist, she let me out, i avoided all people and ranted to the first trusted adult on sight.

i went up, did things normally, and at the exit, asked one of the girls if they put my writing into A.I.....Yesterday (Monday) i asked the other the same thing.....and they comfirmed it, they said "we only extracted a scene though" and i just cut them off, thanked them, and went back to my personal things to avoid crying....

i feel so violated, thorn, like suddenly part of my soul is gone, stolen and fed to A.I.....am i being dramatic? am i just exagerating? i don't want to do anything for the competitions, i will merely wear the costume my brother made, because he gave out his everything...and maybe finish the painting i was helping make because it's 97% mine and 3% of others in class (and bc *Pop's friend* and *Popular boy* told me to give it my signature since they said it's the least i deserve for drawing and painting it almost entirely myself).....normally for this things i play on the games, submit personal writings, participate in theater, basically do everything and anything i knoe i can, even if not thrilling just to get my peers excited to participate, kinda like their unofficial mascot/cheerleader......but after being plagirized? when they know i hate A.I? i just don't want to do anything anymore.....i just want to finish the things i had already started and be done ASAP.

please, anyone reading, Am i being too sensitive by refusing to participate on anything else??????????

 (beyond the painting that needs finishing, and wearing the costume my brother made)

Signed off by Icarus.