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Article History

Received: 29 January 2026

Accepted: 30 March 2026

First Online: 29 April 2026

Declarations

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: According to our institutional rules, formal ethics approval was not required. At the same time great care was taken to conduct this research in an ethical manner. The study was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles for research involving human subjects and the specific guidelines for research and data protection of our university. To ensure data protection of the participants, the study was pre-discussed with the data protection officer at our institution. In addition, the recruitment of and all interaction with the participants (including payments) were handled by a panel that pseudonymizes all participants. At no point any of the researchers had access to identifying information of the participants except for voluntarily provided first names and ages. All interaction with OpenAI was done in a way to minimize the chance of identifying the individuals involved in the study, and no identifying information was shared with this service. Moreover, the participants were prohibited from including personal information about themselves and others in their journal entries. Finally, all participants provided written informed consent to voluntarily participate in the study and were paid once they fulfilled the required activities (pre-survey, introduction session, post-survey). The behavior of the participants beyond these requirements did not in any way influence the compensation. In order to fairly compensate the participants it was set in a way to exceed the local minimum wage when just doing the required steps of the study.

: The authors declare no conflict of interest.