AI in Scratch? Rumors? The truth?

FountainPenPoet

There's something that's been bugging me.

Everyone is all the sudden talking about AI on scratch and about it stealing our art and creations-and I'm really confused.

I don't come to the online Scratch forum much, but I just had to ask: Is it true? Is scratch going to start using AI? And if so, what will that look like? Because everyone seems to be freaking out and talking about even BOYCOTTING scratch for a couple days. I don't think it's worth all the fuss-I'm just curious.

Please let all replies be kind and civil!

MagicCoder330

Scratch is indeed planning to add an AI, called the creative learning assistant.

This AI will primarily help by:
a)finding projects which may be helpful to the user (and suggesting to give credit to them)
b)suggesting individual blocks (eg, broadcast for interfacing between sprites)
c)explaining existing code.

It will not:
generate entire projects
generate images

mingo-gag

Here's a Video of what the AI on Scratch will look like.

gem1001

Let's start from the beginning.

In August 2023, Eric Rosenbaum, director of Scratch Lab, published an article demonstrating an AI image generation tool for the Scratch Editor. It went on to say that because of issues relating to disturbing weirdness, bias, et cetera, it would not be added, even to Scratch Lab, any time soon. However, because some people did not read it thoroughly, they came to believe that scratch would add AI image generation, stirring up some controversy.

In November 2024, Scratch released a document advertising a vacancy for the job of Senior Backend Engineer. This raised attention because it was the first official mention of Scratch 4.0. It also raised much controversy, as it said 4.0 would have ‘creative AI’.

In July 2025, the Creative Learning Assistant, an AI chatbot for the editor, was announced. It was later demoed live at the Scratch Conference 2025.
Also in July 2025, Mitchel Resnick, founder of Scratch, posted an article showing AI blocks like

ask AI () and wait ::extension

. This was not brought to widespread community attention until December 2025, when the secret Scratch Lab experiment for them was found. They were quickly found to be easily made to respond with vulgar and/or offensive content, and due to the unexpected sudden amount of testing by the community, they stopped working after only a few days due to it running out of OpenAI credits.

On 22 January 2026, Scratch updated its Terms of Use to the new Terms of Service, a document that sparked an extreme amount of controversy due to things like explicitly giving Scratch the right to train AI on your stuff.

Last edited by gem1001 (Feb. 11, 2026 10:20:51)

dxgbdfxdgfcdtehgv

I think it would be nice to add a block to add things like AI npc's, but nothing else. I feel this would cause the most benifits with the least drawbacks

scratchy_boy106

dxgbdfxdgfcdtehgv wrote:
I think it would be nice to add a block to add things like AI npc's, but nothing else. I feel this would cause the most benifits with the least drawbacks

Hello! On the scratch forums it's best not to necropost.

musicmarker

FountainPenPoet wrote:
There's something that's been bugging me.

Everyone is all the sudden talking about AI on scratch and about it stealing our art and creations-and I'm really confused.

I don't come to the online Scratch forum much, but I just had to ask: Is it true? Is scratch going to start using AI? And if so, what will that look like? Because everyone seems to be freaking out and talking about even BOYCOTTING scratch for a couple days. I don't think it's worth all the fuss-I'm just curious.

Please let all replies be kind and civil!

its just scratchers like me making AI but I don't think the AIs on scratch would ever be smart enough to make art let alone games in a pre built programming engine inside scratch

super_programator551

STOP!! AI is stupid!!

when [ Ask AI] key pressed

ScodexPerson

super_programator551 wrote:
STOP!! AI is stupid!!
when [ Ask AI] key pressed

What are we supposed to do about that?

purplebunny63

musicmarker wrote:
FountainPenPoet wrote:
There's something that's been bugging me.

Everyone is all the sudden talking about AI on scratch and about it stealing our art and creations-and I'm really confused.

I don't come to the online Scratch forum much, but I just had to ask: Is it true? Is scratch going to start using AI? And if so, what will that look like? Because everyone seems to be freaking out and talking about even BOYCOTTING scratch for a couple days. I don't think it's worth all the fuss-I'm just curious.

Please let all replies be kind and civil!
its just scratchers like me making AI but I don't think the AIs on scratch would ever be smart enough to make art let alone games in a pre built programming engine inside scratch

scratchy_boy106 wrote:
dxgbdfxdgfcdtehgv wrote:
I think it would be nice to add a block to add things like AI npc's, but nothing else. I feel this would cause the most benifits with the least drawbacks
Hello! On the scratch forums it's best not to necropost.

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