A cautionary tale against not having backups***
The article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04064-7 *>in August, I temporarily disabled the ‘data consent’ option because I wanted to see whether I would still have access to all of the model’s functions if I did not provide OpenAI with my data. At that moment, all of my chats were permanently deleted and the project folders were emptied — two years of carefully structured academic work disappeared. No warning appeared. * Well, that sucks…
this dumbass was using ChatGPT like it was Obsidian ROFL
take his degrees away
I’m sorry but WHAT? how do you work on stuff for 2 years and have NO BACKUPS? Like dude WTF. I have backups of backups, I have version histories of everything I do. I have physical backups, cloud backups, off site backups, you name it. If I put effort into creating something, it’s worth putting in effort to keep it safe.
This dude was outsourcing his brain to a dumb chat service and lost the ability to think. His brain was so fried he actually tried the feature that said this will lock you out of your data, just to see if he actually got locked out.
Not the mention the dude worked on grants, papers and as a professor. And now the bullshit generator has tainted all of that. Imagine getting a huge student loan to go to get a good education and your professor just outsourced it to fucking ChatGPT. I would be hella mad. Not to mention things like grants and early research is often covered by an NDA and my man just uploaded all of that to some shitty US company.
And now I’m hooked on Angela’s videos… thanks! 👍
