That stood out to me too. If I'm thinking of the same Star Trek context you are, it was a character in Discovery whom we're not supposed to like because

For those going on to grad school, they would need to submit official transcripts indicating they have been awarded their degrees.

LLMs are okay if you already know the answer, because they don't have a basis for truth or a bias for source; they prioritize frequency of co-occurrence of words in the training data. They can produce very convincing and completely made-up text, or propagate "common wisdom" that isn't actually correct.

Using ChatGPT is pretty much the same as trusting one of the random AI-generated blogs poisoning the search results--which other people in this thread are complaining about the uselessness of.

Things I'm proud of:

• finished a feature-complete draft of my dissertation. Now pending approval from my chair to schedule my oral defence
• started rock climbing again after years. One session and I'm still sore days later, but it feels good
• been getting daily exercise, mostly drumming, for about a month now
• kept myself limited to 1 alcoholic drink maximum per outing. This week my friends and I went out twice, so this was my first week with more than one drink since Christmas
• came out to some friends and it went well

Sites for improvement:

• get back on a consistent sleep schedule
• snap back to former life-work balance from before my dissertation writing binge
• the constant productivity felt good, but I'd like to avoid these writing binges in the future to prevent burnout

Upcoming this week:

• having some 1:1 conversations with grad students about unionizing
• a ludicrous amount of prep work for academic job applications
• goal to get outside the house every day