When Two Years of Academic Work Vanished With a Single Click

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By msmashJan 23, 2026, 4:40 pm98 pts
Marcel Bucher, a professor of plant sciences at the University of Cologne in Germany, lost two years of carefully structured academic work in an instant when he temporarily disabled ChatGPT's "data consent" option in August to test whether the AI tool's functions would still work without providing OpenAI his…

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