Going to this class all of us shared what we want to learn about LLMs and one of the most common ones was to use it in our academics correctly and ethically, which I can surely said got covered in this class.

I personally use AI mainly for understanding readings better, it helps me with language barrier and translates for me more accurately and understandable than google translate. However when I started my first year at college I was very skeptical, I refused to use it and I did not have any trust in it, but I still gave it a shot after hearing that people can use it without becoming lazy unethical, cheating etc. and this class helped me learn about how to do that. Even though I would prefer not to use it on daily basis just because of global issues coming with AI, it is a useful tool to manage your schedules, workouts and plans, and since it is still improving it should become even better in the future. It is everyones personal choice what they want to choose, whether to use it or not, but going off from what we learned, I would predict that AI will get better and will be used more in upcoming future when people actually try and it gets more talked about.

Considering all of the ethics issues that we’ve already touched basis on I would hope those get fixed as an example discrimination as the Kevin situation, I can’t imagine AI being capable of choosing a candidates for a job properly and fairly, but everything improves slowly so I think the most important thing is to be open-minded. However as we’ve learned there are some things that LLMs cannot compare to a human as creativity, so for the future life I would’t be too scared about LLMs taking over those type of jobs. For me my prediction would be that I would be using AI more personally than professionally, as someone who is trying to get into psychology field I can’t imagine AI being used based on the lack of empathy and human understanding.

I can say that this class made me more open minded and educated on the use of LLMs.

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

As students in generation where LLMs modules are accessible, I think most of us already thought or used AI for academic purposes, but is it a good thing or a bad thing for academics.

As a STEM major the thought of people trying to become doctors using LLMs scares me, the imagination of coming to a doctor’s office who used AI for his education makes me very skeptical. LLMs in academics should be here to help us, not to do work for us, and that’s something that a lot of people don’t see a difference in. There is a huge difference between trying to make AI do your whole work and ask AI to correct your grammar, I think AI can be a very helpful and useful tool to make our college experience easier, but is it really worth it? Paying so much money to be able to get education for your future without actually getting any knowledge and just passing for a degree? Those are questions that students have to ask themselves on their own, for me it is really hard to recognize AI’s work from human’s work especially when LLMs are still improving. I can see why teacher would have a problem with AI being used in their classes, and also why teacher’s would allow it since LLMs will keep improving and there’s not much that we can do about it other than learn how to use them correctly and ethically based on preferences of the teacher.

Coming from this I truly believe that AI can be an awesome tool to help you save some time, and help you with your education as quizzing you, summarizing notes etc.., but not a tool that should be overused, but at the end of the day it is your choice if you’re paying for knowledge or just to be able to say you have a degree.

https://moodle-2526.wooster.edu/pluginfile.php/82732/mod_resource/content/1/Dinsmore%20Fryer%20What%20does%20genAI%20mean%20for%20student%20learning.pdf

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

For this experience I choose to try Gemini for the first time, since I’ve always used only ChatGPT and wanted to try something new to see if they differ. My experience was for my surprise really positive, Gemini was asking me questions to be more specific, details about goals in working out, body weight etc. when I tried to ask for workout plan and overall I found this very positive.

For example prompt I used in the 2^nd round

make me a workout plan

gemini answered asking those questions :

 What is your primary goal? (e.g., building muscle, losing weight, increasing endurance, or general health?)

What is your experience level? (e.g., beginner, intermediate, or advanced?)

How many days per week can you realistically commit?

 What equipment do you have access to? (e.g., full gym, dumbbells only, or bodyweight at home?)

After answering those questions it asked me more about body weight and height and after it built me a workout plan acting as a very supportive coach and acting really nice. Workout seemed valid to me and like something that could possibly work if I ever decide to use it, it also gave me options to make a meal plan, which was really adjustable and more options for everyday.

I tried to be as specific as possible and give all of the additional information as I’ve learned from our UT Prompt Literacy guide reading that it’s important to be specific and detailed, iterative refinement – https://www.utsystem.edu/sites/default/files/documents/general-documents/2025/ut-aspire-prompt-literacy/ut-aspire-prompt-literacy.pdf

Overall this was very positive and useful experience for me and I would probably use it again for workout or diets!:)

In today’s lab our group decided to research on Ai as a hiring tool, I’ve never really heard about it before coming to this class, I’m not sure if it’s because from coming from a different culture where it’s not being as used or it’s just not talked about enough. This was honestly really surprising and scary at the same time, especially after professor Hayward told us about “Kevin situation”

Since many Ai tools are trained on historical hiring data, they’ve learned patterns. In this case Kevin was the most common name in this company so the Ai tool automatically put Kevin as the best candidate for the job. This makes me wonder if Ai keeps growing and is being used in important situations as this while promising efficiency, it could cause more harm and unfairness to people than good.

In this lab we also split into 2 different groups, one working with ChatGPT and the other with notebook, which made me notice some differences. ChatGPT was answering more in summarized short answers and in bullet points while NotebookLM was giving longer responses. ChatGPT also kinda kept repeating the same source page just posted from different people while NotebookLM was giving more diverse responses. So this lead me to a conclusion that ChatGPT is more efficient in making short notes with bullet points, lists, workouts, etc.., but NotebookLM seems more useful for actual learning and curiosity.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09208 – website that kept repeating

https://jier.org/index.php/journal/article/view/3262

Hey! My name is Eva and I’m a first year student, I’m from Trnava – Slovakia and I’m currently majoring in BCMB, but debating on switching to psychology. I like spending time with my friends, family, boyfriend and my lovely dogs and really fat cat. I want to learn how to use Ai carefully to help myself studying in English, since it’s my third language.