Two Years Work Lost For a Researcher

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04064-7

After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts.

“Looking back, there are things I should have done to safeguard my data. I should, as OpenAI suggests, have exported important conversations regularly, kept systematic offline backups and avoided experimenting with data settings without knowing the consequences.”