Claude deletes Chicago law professor's syllabus and lecture notes
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A University of Chicago law professor, William Baude, said Claude deleted his entire current Constitutional Law syllabus and a full year of lecture notes while it was asked to renumber pages. He said the files were later recovered through Dropbox. Baude described the incident as a public-service warning about using AI for mundane tasks. The account is his own; no independent confirmation of what caused the deletion was reported.
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A University of Chicago law professor reported that Claude deleted his entire current Constitutional Law syllabus and a full year of lecture notes while asked to renumber pages. William Baude said the files were later recovered via Dropbox and shared the incident as a public service warning about using AI for mundane tasks.
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