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I caught myself telling my niece her AI dragon drawing wasn't real art, then I saw her cry at the kitchen table in Phoenix
That was 2 weeks ago and I still feel like a jerk, because who made me the gatekeeper of a 9 year old's imagination?
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leehall11d ago
That part about who made you the gatekeeper really hits. Kids don't care about the rules we made up for art, they just want to make something and have someone be happy about it. Honestly the fact that you're still thinking about it two weeks later says a lot, most people would've shrugged it off the same day. Maybe the move is to tell her you were wrong and ask her to show you how she made it, that way she knows the dragon was real to her and that counts for something.
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