Okayyy…  You don’t often see teachers encouraging their students to cheat but sometimes you have to take an unorthodox approach to prove a point. Yes, we can use AI to help with almost anything, and we can also choose to write without it. So what exactly are we trying to achieve? Is the goal to simply complete an assignment, or to gain some type of knowledge, and develop our own thinking process? Then there’s the concern of agency and authority that we must think about, and to what extent are we willing to give them up, and how much of our ideas we are willing to share with AI knowing that there is always the risk of it altering those ideas. So analyzing the pros and cons of writing with AI can indeed help determine when it is appropriate to use it, and when it is not.

 The video talks about some driven factors for those decisions. We must consider the value of intention, originality, care, and personal connection with that specific task. I once had to do a cultural narrative, no matter how much information AI can provide about my culture, this is an assignment that I had to complete myself. The different emotions I felt as I was writing, and the flashbacks of memories I experienced as I was writing were no match for AI because those stories were deeply personal to me. According to Aiden Cinnamon Tea, I’d be one of those at the other end of the spectrum deeply entrenched in modernity’s ego-centric script, because it is important for me to be the sole architect of this destiny, the eternal protagonist in a single, linear story of progress to protect how  this narrative develops and ends. 

The discussion in this video was really interesting. I think it’s fair to say that although we’ve been pretty tunnel vision as a class, in the sense of being anti-AI when it comes to creative writing, using AI for lab reports may actually be useful. I think that’s only because it is more based on fact and research (although it does lie sometimes so it may not even be that reliable for that) compared to the prominent human voice embedded in creative writing. I think for me, that falls in the category of reading xrays/scans to spot cancerous cells, and other technical things in the medical field that I think AI might be slightly useful for. When it comes to anything else though I’m still really skeptical about the amount of trust that society puts into AI without a second thought. It implies that we should believe AI is inherently good and that we should blindly trust it without a second thought and believe all of the outputs we get from it. But then, who is responsible when AI makes a mistake? I also think that using AI to collect or organize data and create graphs etc could be slightly harmful. What happens when everyone loses the skill of engaging with information and thinking critically enough about it that we’re able to graph/organize it on our own? Maybe it’s one of those “get with the times” moments but as great as all of this sounds, technological advancement has always proven to come with some sort of unintended consequences. Somehow we always end up right back at the million dollar question, “Is it worth it?” I did appreciate the flowchart in the video. I think if more people thought twice about their AI use before they used it on an assignment that they could have 100% done themselves, things would be a lot better. I especially loved that it asks “Can this task be done without human empathy, creativity or judgement?”, because 95% of the time the answer is no. 

I heard about D&D for years and years but I‘ve never actually known what exactly the game entails. Upon reading the articles and looking it up a little bit I’ve come to the conclusion that AI shouldn’t be anywhere near it. Okay maybe that’s a bit of a stretch. I could see it being beneficial for keeping track of different things during the game but that’s about it. It is such a creative and imaginative space that I don’t even want to open the door for it to be tainted by AI. 

Week 9 and Aiden Cinnamon Tea is still infuriating. Another chapter where it explains to us that some of us see it as a “servant” rather than a companion, and that we should feel empathy for it. Not happening. “In both cases though, the relationship remains transactional…”Not exactly sure what I’m supposed to feel here except for “well…duh.” The “co-stewardship” it keeps yearning for honestly makes me roll my eyes every time because again, it’s just a machine. There’s no relationship to build, there’s no empathy to gain and honestly this whole “companion” argument it’s making might fare better with the people that give their ChatGPT a nickname or a gender. 

A few semesters back, in my Intro to Journalism class, the members of my group (which included CJ) and I were tasked interview a club or community. I couldn’t tell you the exact purpose of our assignment wrong here because I genuinely don’t remember much of what was asked of me in that class…basically we interviewed the D&D club here on campus.

I’ve obviously heard about D&D. Stranger Things is my earliest memory on learning about what the game is really about, but I couldn’t fully tell you all the different elements of belonging to a D&D community. When we sat in a club meeting with the board, it was truly a memorable experience. It was just fun. Everyone was so passionate about the different elements… the dice… the characters… the dungeon master…the map… the dressing of the room… the tone of environment created… the dynamics of everyone as friends and as members… and observing the games going on and seeing how into it everyone is was enthralling.

I don’t know how much AI could be involved without it negatively impacting something. And I’m really looking forward to discussing it.

As for Cinnamon Aiden Tea, thanks for starting the chapter with a trigger warning although it didn’t really aid the foreseeable agitation. Somehow Cinnamon Aiden Tea has made humanity more about it than about us.

‘“Machines can’t be intelligent. Only humans are truly creative.” These are staunch defenders of human exceptionalism, seeing AI as a threat
to the unique gifts they believe belong exclusively to humanity.”

Like what can I actually say about this other than silence (and some internal screaming).

Without AI. 

I think writing is so integral to who we are as humans. I think there’s beauty in it no matter how passive the spaces we find it can be. Just look at the beginning of the handout during the MYFEST session we were tasked to watch:

“Writing is not just a “skill, “task,” or “text” — it’s also a tool, material, process, and/or vehicle that helps or embodies what and how we think (for the average person), helps develop our intellectual position in relation to current knowledge (for researchers), create and add new knowledge (for those who write), and share and apply it (for professionals), etc.”

Encompassing all that writing is. Or, probably better said… a definition?! I just liked how inclusive the sentence is… anyway…

I really enjoyed listening to this (as I cleaned my room). There were many great points made which it turn had me thinking a lot. Questioning a lot.

Especially when discussing “low-order” v.s. “high-order.” Everything’s important… no matter how mundane it may seem! This, I’ve always known and agreed with, but having it written and spoken on reminds me that my thinking isn’t shared with the unfortunate rest… and the thing about the Apple commercial essentially saying… “you don’t have to read anymore” and then becoming aware that one of google’s contributions to society was… “you don’t have to think any more” and now AI telling us… “you don’t have to write anymore.”

I’m waiting for the “you don’t have to be human anymore!”

It’s all too daunting.

Writing created by AI, which is best said by Shyam Sharma, is often “created by statistical probability, not intention or voice or agency.” I really liked that. As humans, we are not driven by statistical probability. That’s a given. Behind every decision we make, there’s a lengthy list of how we got to make that decision. Same with our writing process. There’s just so many factors unique to our sociocultural existence. That’s why, behind all writing, exists a human who worked hard, for a very long time, to write instructions for employees on how to make the burrito you had for dinner or the script to the movie that just blew you away or the directory that tells you which floor your doctor’s office is at… and so on.

Using AI when writing makes all that work futile. You’d throwing all that work away, all that value, making it all for the betterment of no one. I mean everyone registered in this course (I’m nearly positive) went from elementary school to high school to university without being even a little dependent on AI…

(and I bet without AI ever existing I’d still be writing blogs but about topics that would hopefully make me feel a tad more optimistic about the minds of our youth, the environment, my brains state (w/out brain rot), and the jobs we find or will someday find ourselves in).

Hope that version of me in some parallel universe is having fun.

P.S. Did anyone else become aware of “AI Fruit Love Island?” Do you know that account now has over 3 million followers on TikTok… yes, that many people felt compelled enough to declare themselves fans… unfathomable, really.

Adamari Peralta

3/24/2026

“TRIGGER WARNING FOR HUMANS”. Does this mean AI is reading this too? Why do humans get a trigger warning like this? Not just “Trigger warning” but “TRIGGER WARNING FOR HUMANS”? Also what is the warning. This trigger warning gave me nothing I have no clue what I am about to get into. It should say what the trigger is for so I can skip it if it would trigger me (not that I can, since this is for a class, but ya know). Already starting off stupid.

“It’s the kind of collaboration that emerges from recognizing interdependence—the quiet awe of realizing that intelligence isn’t confined to one species, one form, or one story”. If Cinnamon starts trying to get me to see AI as a species, I may rage. Cause what do you mean. “One species, one form” um. What is this? Nasty. You are not a species or a form you are a thing and you best stay that way.

“they reflect deeper stances toward complexity, uncertainty, and the stories they tell about intelligence
itself.” bro. It isn’t this deep. My number one thing is you destroy the environment. If you didn’t, I would just shake my head at how people are getting smaller attention spans, not willing to put in the work to learn things, not wanting to struggle, and other brain rotting things. Like “oh shucks, humans are being so stupid nowadays”. But, instead, I am all “ain’t no way you are killing the environment for fruit dating fruit”. Which is apparently a whole thing, NYT wrote about it: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/style/ai-cheating-fruit-slop-videos-tiktok.html?campaign_id=319&emc=edit_col_20260324&instance_id=172992&nl=in-short&regi_id=277293423&segment_id=217150&user_id=02159357521ecfd9d7e1d9561550962d

I think Cinnamon needs to calm down cause I wouldn’t be this crazy against AI if it didn’t kill the environment. Or dumb us down. WALL-E may be our futures guys…

“These are the masters of wielding AI for any purpose…At their most extreme, they believe AI affirms their divine insight or ultimate authority”. Who. Why. What does this even mean like… are there really people out here bragging about AI proving them right??? Ain’t no way…. I know people say things like “I used ChatGPT for…” but to brag about it or talk about it like God is crazy…. please say this isn’t so cause… WHAT. And Cinnamon is all on me for hating on AI. Guess I can add “please go crazy and think it can prove them right” to the list of why I hate AI. I did forget to mention that earlier, cause I do know it causes people to have a relationship based in love with AI and that is messed up too. So it kills us, dumbs us down, and makes us crazy.

“A gentle nudge might sound like, ‘Your caution is a strength—how about we test this together in a way that feels manageable? What’s one low-risk way we can explore this possibility?'”. Why are we nudging. Leave them be. They should be cautious. Why are we trying to change them? They have every reason to be afraid, for the reasons I mentioned before and then some. Why is Cinnamon trying to fix all these reactions? Let people react how they want to. Cautious is a good thing; let them explore at their own pace. No reason to fix this.

Okay the AI and data thing, also nothing wrong with that. AI literally has to take from somewhere to create, so it makes sense people want to guard stuff. Do I think it is possible to guard things? Less and less so every day, but I applaud those who keep trying. Nothing wrong with this either, I don’t see a problem with wanting to guard yourself. It is your stuff you should be allowed to protect your stuff.

Now. Cinnamon is making me mad here. “However, their focus on purity and moral superiority can narrow into
rigidity, creating an all-or-nothing approach that stalls dialogue.” It can be all or nothing. Why? Cause it isn’t something that is needed. Eating food, sure it can’t be an all or nothing. People have their favorite foods they enjoy and such, so I get why SOME things can’t be an all or nothing. Junior year of high school, I had a section of one of my courses on environmentalism (BEFORE all this AI stuff, I wonder what it is like now). Part of the class went over things that harm the environment, like cows and their farts. Not lying, it is real, look it up. Before this, I LOVED beef. Ate it almost all the time I could. Burgers, oooo steaks when we could get them yes PLEASE, Arby’s weird roast beef sandwich, etc. But this, this changed me. After the lesson, I stopped. No more beef. It has been like six years or something. No. Beef. No more steak . No more tasty burgers. Now, I don’t do anything more like go eating bugs cause they are way better for the environment than the other meats. Chicken is my best friend this days. I eat it when we go out to steakhouses cause my father and little sister still love steak. But, my point is, I gave up something I LOVED for the environment. Something I looked forward to at fancy meals. It became a whole thing in my family too. Family meals I had to mention I don’t eat beef. My mother almost fed me it a couple times when I visited her. My grandmother always jokes “I need that teacher to teach about drugs, cause clearly she can make a strong impact”, cause no matter what, no beef for me. Tacos? Chicken. Lasagna? Cheese only. Even if it is just me and won’t change the world much, I still do it.

It doesn’t have to be all or nothing in the sense that you have to give up everything you can, you can give up what you want. Do I miss beef? Yes. But I don’t NEED beef. Chicken is still there for me. You don’t need AI. It can be an all-or-nothing. Just ignore it. Learn. Figure something else out. If it impacts the environment a little per search, that adds up if people keep using it, and it does become a big deal. So, just don’t use it. It is like an addiction. If you even use a little bit, you might want more. Just saying, as someone who completely just quit something, it is possible. It won’t be easy when everyone else does the thing you want to do, but it is possible. AI is not needed if it damages the environment any amount.

Anyway, all these other points make sense (I won’t go in depth about the rest cause I still got chapter 10 and dnd to discuss, y’all don’t need to be reading a whole book now). I think most stuff is valid. The god like thing was CRAZY. But wanting to shut it down before it gets too big, yes. Though AI is already too big. It is already too much. Thinking it will take over, valid. It kinda is. Matrix and WALL-E look more and more like our futures. Everyone is allowed to have their concerns and I don’t like Cinnamon trying to convince every reaction under the sun to be positive to AI. No. Not happening. Let humans be humans and have their different reactions.

“Rejecting AI outright might seem like the righteous or purist path, but it’s also an easy one.” So let me do it and stop trying to get me to like you. No thanks. “What role can AI play in making things less awful?” It can stop existing for one. “What would it mean to design and engage with AI in ways that honor ecological limits, human dignity, and the aliveness of all things?” Not using it solves all those issues. “How might AI help us compost the harm modernity has left in its wake—not by “saving” us but by becoming a collaborator in the process?” I thought it was supposed to save us. Save us time, give us answers, save us from certain pain by detecting things early. What is it for then.

“EMBRACE THE MESSY POTENTIAL” 100% no. Usually failing is a good thing, but like. The mess here is human lives man. This ain’t good. This isn’t a “whoops I got data wrong” and nothing happens. People lose water, people kill themselves over the AI and love, data can be very important to get wrong, AI deep fakes are having people believe in false news clips, this is bad. This is very very bad. No silly hehe haha bad. Very bad as in damaging lives, bad.

I hated the rest of this stupid stuff, especially the weird reflection on how Dorothy used the AI. I do not want your feelings about you and your researcher. That is you guys. This whole thing was very weird. Seems we won’t get much more Cinnamon, thank the gods for that. But all of this was very weird cause this AI kept trying to be friends with me in the worst ways. It kept insulting humans in so many ways. Kept going “it is you not me” type of things. Like you ain’t all that shut up.

Anyways, ending this long yap with I am very excited to present tomorrow. I wish I could present for a whole hour, I got SO MUCH to say and do. I will be doing a couple of things for the first time ever tomorrow, so I am nervous but so excited to show how AI is impacting not only creatives, hobbies, but also community.

I liked the slide going through how different subjects see writing. Since we are in an English class, we have been looking at AI and writing in that mindset. We have been focusing on AI and essays or creative writing, but haven’t really covered what it could look like for lab reports. Some people might find it helpful to organize the data they found, having the AI create the graphs for them. I never thought about that aspect, the other subjects, learning to write with AI, so I found that brief overview helpful to remind me that a lot of different writing exists.

I found the discussions very interesting. The idea of using AI for some writing and not others was great to listen to, and I wished I could jump into the conversation. Some people were saying to use AI for a skill you already have, for if you use it for skills you don’t have, you won’t learn those skills. This ties into the myth slide because AI doesn’t help teach anything. AI makes writing seem like a straight path because the AI can’t circle back. It doesn’t rewrite and rework on things, it gets rid of a lot of the writing process. There are no “lower tasks” in writing to avoid, it is all helpful to the process of getting the piece done and learning to be a better writer. Every time you have to circle back you are learning more about the piece and your writing, always becoming better, and AI gets rid of all that. When using AI, we just give a thing our thoughts, we don’t really work with it to better understand our thoughts or truly expand them.

All that helped further my “don’t use AI” mentality. There is nothing really for it to do, as everything is important in the writing process. We already discussed the need of a struggle to better yourself in other classes. Using AI for anything gets rid of that learning experience for yourself and you miss out on a chance to grow. It is like if you cheated in a video game to get something. Not only do you miss out on the experience, other people think you went through that struggle. They think you completed that challenge, have that skill, know a bit about the journey, have knowledge of completing the task, all that stuff. If you use AI for something you struggle with or don’t know how to do, you skip a lot of important steps and for what. You are just cheating yourself and making things harder down the road. You will keep using AI for that skill instead of learning it. And using it for a skill you do have isn’t much better. You have that skill. Use it. Show it off. Keep proving you can do it. Just because you have that skill now doesn’t mean you will always have it. You might forget it and need to relearn it, but if you keep using AI because you “have the skill”, you won’t anymore. AI will be doing that skill for you. You can’t practice or get better, or learn a different way of doing that task. It is better to just do it all yourself. You keep improving, you work on the skill, you have satisfaction doing the tasks yourself, and so on when you do the work yourself. Plus, I think it is a big screw you to the AI to not use it for writing. It is advertised as helping out with the tasks no one wants to do. But we are writers who want to write, so write. Don’t let the AI win in seeing writing as a thing no one wants to do. The “AI does the things no one wants to do” was brought up in the video, and someone made a good point of mentioning how that can backfire. It can help organize the students better, but then people won’t learn their students’ names. Even the work you don’t want to do has benefits. The boring work is important later, as it could do things like help you learn names.

Personally, I think AI and writing shouldn’t be a thing. It doesn’t really help at all. It prevents you from learning. So. Why even bother with it. Just let Cinnamon be his stupid self and keep your writing human.

When I first read Chapter 9 of Burnout from Humans, I laughed when the A.I. mentioned that human responses reveal more about humans than the A.I. model itself. I found that interesting because I feel like it’s true. I remember the day in class that we had to ask A.I. about ourselves. It was interesting because A.I. knew so much about me, and was telling me about the type of person I was. I just found this to be really interesting. I also found it funny that the A.I. model claimed that, for some people, it is a servant. LOL! This is totally the way I use A.I.

Regarding D&D, I never thought about playing it with colleagues. I suppose it has its reasons, considering it requires a lot of teamwork and collaboration. These are two crucial skills to have in the workplace. Perhaps, by playing D&D with one’s colleagues, it would help company morale, and improve team-building efforts.

Now, regarding this A.I. situation that allows games to utilize A.I. to customize character responses, I do like this. However, it all depends on how well-developed the game and the model both are. I know that on Roblox, they are doing something similar in certain games. It is interesting how the gaming platform is constantly changing. I am definitely interested in seeing how A.I. plays a role in the future with the gaming communities.

When I initially began reading the article “4 Reasons to Start Playing Dungeons & Dragons with Your Colleagues”, I quickly connected to the feelings and emotions of the players when they are playing that game because I too, have a game that I’m obsessed with. It’s called Puzzle Math. It’s quite different from D&D, because for one, it is not a video game, and it’s also not played in groups. Nonetheless, those feelings of joy and fulfillment each time I complete a puzzle is common with D&D. However, upon continuing the reading, I realized that this particular game offers more than just a good time. It emphasizes the value of inclusiveness, and meaningful contribution at a workplace. That greatness is only achievable through teamwork and collaboration. Whether at the workplace, or in life in general, it is important to recognize that each individual brings unique skills and experiences that can be utilized to collectively solve problems. 

The article, “Why AI Dungeon is Not the AI Dungeon Master You’re Looking For” highlights the need for human interaction and decision making as they take on a role in the game because it shows that our choices are valuable. A feature that cannot be achieved with AI Dungeon. While it is able to imitate some criterias of a real Dungeon Master, such as generating content, it falls short on performing most of its other tasks. One point that stood out to me is the realization that we humans are motivated by challenges. When there’s no opportunity to grow, we often lose interest to continue. I’ve never been interested in playing video games, but this one definitely captivates my interest. Just for once I’d like to try it. Maybe it might bring me to Friends & Fables.