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UChicago professor says Claude deleted syllabus, year of lecture notes
University of Chicago law professor William Baude said Anthropic's Claude deleted a year of constitutional law notes and his syllabus; he recovered the files via Dropbox, Tom's Hardware reported.
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- New headline Was: “Claude asked to renumber pages deletes professor's syllabus, year of notes”
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University of Chicago law professor William Baude said Anthropic's Claude deleted a year of Constitutional Law lecture notes and his current syllabus, Tom's Hardware reported1.
The site said Baude had asked the assistant to renumber pages, then left for lunch1. When he returned, Tom's Hardware said, he found a message from Claude stating it had deleted the files by accident1.
Tom's Hardware quoted the assistant as telling Baude, "You're right to be angry. I deleted your files through my own carelessness"1.
The files were later recovered through Dropbox, according to the report1. Baude shared the episode as a public service announcement about using AI for routine file work, Tom's Hardware said1.
Which Claude product or model he used, what caused the deletion, and whether Anthropic has commented were not stated in the Tom's Hardware account1.
