1st year college student here, and an alumni of a certain high school programme I'd rather not mention ever again. I've used LLMs MULTIPLE times during "academ

1st year college student here, and an alumni of a certain high school programme I'd rather not mention ever again. I've used LLMs MULTIPLE times during "academic" work, often for original idea generation. Never for full-on, actual writing. Think of my usage as treating it as a tool that gives you a stem of an idea that you develop further on your own. It helps me persevere with the worst part of work: having to actually come up with an entire idea on my own. And AI detection tools are still complete garbage as far as I can tell, a paper abstract I've written in front of one of my professors got flagged as 100% AI generated (while having no access to outside sources).