One night a teenage girl decided to use AI so she could look like a celebrity. She started to edit the photo changing her hair colour making her body slimmer and making her skin clearer. After the photo looked perfect she left the app open on her laptop. Later on when she went to close the app down her mouse broke and started doing its own thing. Before she knew, her mouth was gone and her vision started to blur she didn’t know what to do and how to fix the problem. Then she had an idea to undo all the edits she had made to the picture but it just made it worse. Then she had one last idea if this didn’t work she was stuck with no mouth and nearly no vision left that was just going to worsen. Her last idea was to delete the image completely she slowly started to delete the photo. After minutes of procrastinating whether to risk it or to live a life of pain and suffering. Then she deleted it and everything went back to normal . Or so she thought … All the light around her slowly faded into darkness . She opened her eyes wondering what had just happened she looked down and saw her own body lying there on the bed lifeless … She now knew what had happened , deleting the photo had deleted her life and all her memories.
‘The ghost in the code’ by Eliza Wood, Penwortham Girls’ High School
