ChatGPT: Professor loses two years of work

[Redaktion]

Two years of work lost with a single click—that is how Professor Marcel Bucher describes his experience in an article in Nature. He concludes that ChatGPT poses a risk to sustainable work. However, the chatbot offers a backup function that the researcher apparently failed to utilize.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/ChatGPT-Professor-loses-two-years-of-work.1212106.0.html

[Swizzy]

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[jack1243]

Typical whining from someone who fked up and needed an article in a magazine. How this got peer-approved to be published in Nature, boggles my mind, unless it's to describe an example of nature self-selection.

The fact that this buffoon kept only 1 copy of important documents on a cloud that he did not fully own with 0 back-ups, is laughable incompetent, and imo is a fireable offence for someone in his position.

[Jeffosoft]

What's with the smear campaign everywhere on chatGPT it's awesome 

[banAI]

What's with the smear campaign everywhere on chatGPT it's awesome 

AI is destroying the planet, taking all our hard earned tax payer money, and being forced down our throats by corporations and into our communities with resource-stealing data centers, not to mention all the blatant theft of copyrighted art that gen AI uses to produce meaningless slop. it should be destroyed and banned for eternity.

[jdrch]

You guys have got to stop writing headlines for user error stories as if somehow the service/developer/app/provider involved is at fault.

[Analog tired]

The export data feature is trash for the average user.  It exports a small portion of the first few and last few prompts into an obscure to non-programmers JSON file instead of literally any other commonly used format.

[Mrdozenzeroes]

At least he'll be able to retype in the prompts and have it re-created in four days   
Basically, if you've done two years, you kind of realize that you should start with the end and it does the rest   Just tell me what you remember from the most recent and you'll get there really quick
But that would be terrifying. I feel you.

[Sébastien]

It usually deleted also your history if you disable history settings. Many people think it will only apply to new conversations but it also applies to old ones.
Note: chatgpt should at least ask the user to download a backup of he's data ...

[hugh mungus]

Typical whining from someone who fked up and needed an article in a magazine. How this got peer-approved to be published in Nature, boggles my mind, unless it's to describe an example of nature self-selection.

The fact that this buffoon kept only 1 copy of important documents on a cloud that he did not fully own with 0 back-ups, is laughable incompetent, and imo is a fireable offence for someone in his position.

Columns in Nature are not peer reviewed. "This is an article from the Nature Careers Community, a place for Nature readers to share their professional experiences and advice. Guest posts are encouraged.". Maybe try doing some research before babbling about things you don't understand?