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.

this dumbass was using ChatGPT like it was Obsidian ROFL

take his degrees away

And now I'm hooked on Angela's videos... thanks! 👍

I appreciate the article link. I'm obviously not pro AI, but the framing in the video is really uncharitable. Without seeing the exact text of the prompt to disable data consent, I can totally see it being ambiguous about deleting data. If you're accustomed to opt out prompts and it does not explicitly use "permanently delete all your chat history" or something similar it's possible you thought it was as innocuous as a cookie opt out. If it is ambiguous then this article serves the exact purpose it was written for. She opens by saying she appreciates articles where people are open about embarrassing topics but then lambasts this guy, several times for things I didn't see him admit to. She takes issue with him using the word conversations as though it implies he is besties with it but they are very casually referred to as conversations and she does so herself. I totally understand not liking the way this guy does his job, or even thinking this means he's not even doing his job, but she seems to be making a lot of assumptions. She's probably right on several points, but the video might as well have been written by AI because it just regurgitates my opinions on AI back to me with no real relevance to the article she's talking about. She also on multiple occasions just casually drops that asking AI to write code for you, with the presumption that you don't understand it, is fine actually. She does this unironically. I almost stopped watching but wanted to finish it in case there was a gotcha at the end about media literacy. There was not.