"After turning off ChatGPT's 'data consent' option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts... 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. There was no undo option. Just a blank page." Once again, I plead with you: back up your data. Always. On a different machine. "I assumed basic protective measures would be in place, including a warning about irreversible deletion, a recovery option, albeit time-limited, and backups or redundancy," writes Bucher. Never assume. Just back up your data.
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