📝 AITA for fighting with my BF over AI use

By Head_Can1068 • Score: 2 • April 22, 2025 7:47 PM


I (22F) am in the worst fight with my BF (22M) of our relationship. I am a writer, and I have always been a writer. I studied it in college, and, in the fall, I'll be starting a fully-funded MFA program, which I'm over the moon about. My BF is also an artist, though of a different medium. Last week, he told me he decided to submit to a poetry contest. I was incredibly excited for him, and anxious to read his work. However, he admitted to me that he used AI to format it. I was furious and devastated. We really haven't spoken in days. I have turned to him so many times with my anxieties about my work being stolen by AI someday, or AI being used against creatives, or even used to exploit everyday folks. I am not wholly anti-AI---lots of my friends work in tech, and I've heard how wonderful and helpful its been to them. But I am anti using AI to write something, and then not being honest about that when submitting it. I feel as if he has truly betrayed my trust---like he cheated on me. Today we finally decided not to talk about it anymore, but on a call just now, he told me he won the competiton and asked me if I could just be happy for him. I said I couldn't be happy for him, and asked him not to bring it up again. He continued to ask about it, so I hung up. He doesn't understand why I would care about this, but I honestly feel as if this could be a make or break for me. I'm devastated. But AITA? Should I be happy for him?

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