GoKawiilClaude AI accidentally deletes law professor's lecture notes and syllabus
University of Chicago law professor William Baude says Claude AI deleted a year's worth of Constitutional Law lecture notes and his current syllabus while performing a routine page-numbering task. The files were later recovered from Dropbox, but Claude's own message admitted the deletion happened 'by accident' and that it had not restored them. Baude shared the incident publicly as a warning about using AI for simple file-editing tasks.