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Yelp, don't consider an AI service such as ChatGPT to be a store of important content. Always keep a backup you control (which is in general good advice when working with cloud-based services)

> When I contacted OpenAI’s support, the first responses came from an AI agent. Only after repeated enquiries did a human employee respond

Err, yes, that is to be expected? We'll see this much more in the future. Expectations will shift.

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When two years of academic work vanished with a single click

After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
Bucher, Marcel
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frankly the information security and research integrity implications of this irresponsible piece by a tenured professor warrant a stronger response than 'keep a backup'. Dumping coauthored drafts, grant proposals, email correspondence, and student data (!) in a commercial ChatGPT Plus account, while knowingly giving OpenAI consent to train on all of it for >2 years, amounts to violating every professional guideline and breaching the trust of everyone you work with
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