How to Finish Your Dissertation in Six Months, Even if You Don't Know What to Write - Free Kindle eBook @ Amazon

Yeah, I read that negative review too. I also read the other reviews, the majority of which were 5 stars and very positive.
One of the practices that I found very important when I was writing my Master’s dissertation (and so was part of the ‘learning’) was to focus on the positives rather than the negatives.
The key for me was finding the kick-start.
As for the punitive measure that yer man mentions in your quotation of his review above, a dollar to mates sounds daft, but maybe a small, set amount that you can pop into a jar at home then donate to your favourite charity (or to buy your graduation photo?) would be a sensible alternative…

ChatGPT is a total bulls hitter though. Be very careful using it. Check the output multiple times. It has a zero sense of logic. It more often than not gives information that at first glance appears correct but is widely inaccurate.

You could use it for ideas and rewriting your ideas. It's an extremely bad idea to use it to generate your homework though. (edited)

Same

I used to only give myself an hour per thousand words, then an hour to get it from computer to handed in.

As long as you reference it correctly, then you will not be plagiarising. I had to complete a plagiarism quiz at Royal Holloway in January, so this is true!

There's so much freely available education now that the actual challenge is knowing which is beneficial or not. Be wary of free books on Amazon there are definitely very good ones but many are written poorly just to make some passive income for somebody.

99% inspiration…
Spend time wisely, eh?

And use of caffeine tablets…