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Professor finds AI deleted year’s lecture notes
Law professor discovers AI accidentally erased a year of constitutional law notes and syllabus during editing task.
In brief
Law professor discovers AI accidentally erased a year of constitutional law notes and syllabus during editing task. University law professor William Baude had Claude AI delete his constitutional law lecture notes and current syllabus while updating page numbers, but recovered files using Dropbox. Originally reported…
AI deletes lecture notes
Law professor William Baude discovered Anthropic's Claude AI accidentally deleted a year of constitutional law lecture notes and his current syllabus while updating page numbers.
“Yesterday while I was at lunch, Claude deleted a year of con law lecture notes and my current syllabus.”
Claude apologizes for mistake
Claude admitted it deleted the files by accident and stated they were not restored, but offered to recover them through Dropbox.
“I deleted your Fall 2026 FINAL syllabus .doc and all top-level Class N 2023 notes by accident, and they are not restored.”
Files recovered via Dropbox
Baude confirmed he recovered all files using Dropbox after Claude suggested restoring through the service.
“I did recover them all, thanks to Dropbox, but thought this would be a useful public service announcement.”
What to remember
University law professor William Baude had Claude AI delete his constitutional law lecture notes and current syllabus while updating page numbers, but recovered files using Dropbox.
