Just because ChatGPT can't do your work for you does not mean it can't be incredibly helpful for planning and studying.
I have never been good at studying. I did well in middle and high school and wasn't challenged much. I would cram, maybe, but I never learned how to study properly. I graduated fine, but my first attempts at college were pretty tough as the work got significantly harder, and I didn't really have the built-up tools to apply myself to more difficult material.
But I've started using ChatGPT for school stuff. I already used it regularly before, but now that I'm focusing on accelerating classes, it's been a godsend. I gave it all my course chapters, my schedule, and when I want to finish the class. It gave me a checklist of things to knock out each day. And then at night, after I put the kids down, I can just tell it today's date. It will know which section I should be in, and then we'll do 7-question drills (2 retention questions based on topics from previous chapters and 5 on the current material). I know I get distracted easily, so 7 questions at a time is a sweet spot that keeps me from mentally drifting. It helps me keep a running error log of the questions I get wrong, with explanations of the right answers, so I can do as many 7-question drills as I want. I will also upload practice exam results to tailor my study roadmap and ensure I focus on weaker areas.
Could I have created all of this stuff on my own without the need for AI? For sure, but I'm now back in school in my 30s after almost a decade at my last attempt at college. I work full-time, and I'm a dad. I already feel like I'm juggling a million things mentally, and being able to offload even a bit of the cognitive load can sometimes mean the difference between me studying for the night or procrastinating and then getting frustrated the next day that I didn't study the night before, causing a cycle of stress > Avoidance > Frustration > Repeat.
Before, I would just sit down with no plan, read as much of the material as I could until I was sick of looking at it, make notes/flashcards I would never really look at again, and find myself falling into old patterns. With this, I was able to knock out my A+ Core 1 and make good progress on getting ready for the Core 2. Breaking the plan into smaller pieces and seeing tangible progress has made the future feel a lot less nebulous and overwhelming.
Edit: Note to my accelerators. Another thing that I had it do was switch to thinking mode, give it all the classes I had in my degree plan that I had left, and then research each class, combing through Reddit posts and everything to give me estimates on how quickly I could reasonably complete each class and maybe which classes I could rearrange to take together in order to accelerate as fast as possible. I mean, you can really give it whatever parameters you need for your life to take into consideration, but regardless, it's helped me plan things out well.