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While researching the difference between online-college and in-person college, I used Artificial Intelligence to my advantage. I used ChatGPT to write a 250-word essay on the subject matter and was rather impressed with the results even though I had to make slight modifications. Although I have Grammarly and Samsung keyboard installed on my devices, ChatGPT was able to identify, spelling and grammar issues. It was not able to correct line spaces and paragraph insertions. AI was also helpful with sentence structure and clarity.

After linking my Google Doc to ChatGPT, there were some highlighted suggestions that needed to be corrected. I learned that AI is not fully capable of understanding context, therefore human input is highly recommended for accuracy and uniqueness. I gathered very generic data for my research using AI and had to search for statistics and facts to validate my initial question. The data was slightly outdated and did not consider a post-pandemic outlook. In addition, ChatGPT was not able to provide specific data or comparisons to how the pandemic has affected college enrollment. What I have learned is that AI doesn’t understand emotions or sentiments therefore, it cannot include point-of-view comparisons.

Overall, I trust AI when it comes to literature or gathering generic data. I would not rely on its content to produce a full-fledged article. Fact checking will also play an integral role when publishing any information regarding, race, gender, or demographic. I do trust the grammar and spell check, however sentence spacing, paragraph formatting, and line spacing was an issue.