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ChatGPT user lacks self-awareness

2026-01-31 16:51:19.95585+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

I am not one generally to watch a 27 minute video of someone talking about a Nature blog post, but this roast of a dude who became ChatGPT dependent is giving me all the schadenfreude warm fuzzies.

Angela Collier: this is what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brain (YouTube video)

The massive self-own is Nature: When two years of academic work vanished with a single click

After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-04064-7

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