Before the Tuesday’s lab I was very skeptical about this topic, considering that creativity is something that differs every person from another, our thinking, our imagination and is a way to express deep emotions, something that reflects on us as human beings. As we read in our reading defining as “Something that demonstrates both novelty and usefulness” (Bhatia, 2025). Creativity should have a meaning even if it’s just for the author, in my eyes it is something that should be useful, even if it would be only for one person. It’s a way to express yourself and leave a “note” after yourself.

Using Gemini me and my group tried multiple ways to ask for a poem written as Silverstein’s and this was the outcome :

“The 9-to-5-a-Saurus​

The 9-to-5-a-saurus has a tie around its neck,​

 It lives on bitter coffee and a monthly little check​

It doesn’t have a tail, but it has a rolling chair, ​

And a very frantic look beneath its thinning, grayish hair.​

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It spends its morning screaming at a glowing plastic screen,​

 n a cubicle that’s smaller than a can of lima bean. ​

It talks of “synergy” and “growth” and “pivoting the plan,”​

 While wondering where the heck its happy childhood years all ran.​

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It dreams of sandy beaches and a drink inside a coconut, ​

But then it hears a ding and gets a kick right in the gut. ​

“The spreadsheet’s due by five!” the Senior Manager will yell, ​

(The Senior Manager, of course, lives in a deeper hell).​

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So the 9-to-5-a-saurus grinds its teeth and clicks its mouse, ​

To pay for a garage that’s attached to a giant house, ​

Where it sleeps for seven minutes till the sun begins to rise, ​

With circles ‘round its soul and bags beneath its heavy eyes.​

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Oh, be careful, little children, when you say you want to grow,​

 There’s a monster in a blazer that the grown-ups all should know.

If you don’t watch out, you’ll wake up in a suit of navy blue, ​

And the 9-to-5-a-saurus… Will be you.​”

This poem does not stand a chance to a poem written by an actual author who enjoys writing. It is far away from creativity, meaning and any emotions. This experiment made me realize how grateful we should be for being able to be creative. It is something deep, subjective, and unique. Even though LLMs are useful as a tool for other things, it still lacks of empathy and humanity. Overall I still disagree that LLMs should be used for this, there are things where technology can’t compare to human’s and this is one of them, but now I know how easy it is to recognize LLMs poems from the pieces of an actual author’s :).

https://www.freethink.com/opinion/studio-ghibli-chatgpt-creativity?utm_source=tldrai