• Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    If he only used it as a tool, I’d still say it’s his work. It should of course be included in the methodology section.

    But considering he lost 2 years worth of work, just because his chats got wiped? That’s more than just a tool

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        “Oops all the research was set on fire” is a tale as old as grad students.

        In the 2000s it was trusting everything in a multi-year study to a single thumb drive. In the 70s it was carrying the only copy of everything in a single briefcase. Presumably at some point someone was devastated that the rain came early and wiped out all the work on the sand table.

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        10 days ago

        Well we are talking about the guy who pressed the delete everything button and then was surprised that everything was deleted.

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          Yes, but all was deleted were the ChatGPT chats. Is that all the research produced in 2 years? Probably nothing of value was lost.

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            9 days ago

            Probably not. It seems misleading to characterize what he loss as his research, and a blatant clickbaity lie to claim it was all of it.

            Bucher admitted he’d “lost” two years’ worth of “carefully structured academic work” — including grant applications, publication revisions, lectures, and exams