If you've ever accidentally deleted a work file only to realise you never made any backups, prepare to pour one out with me. Marcel Bucher, a professor of plant sciences at the University of Cologne, has written a column for Nature entitled "When two years of academic work vanished with a single click". Ouch.
Bucher explains that he'd been using OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus service as an assistant for a number of tasks, including writing emails, structuring grant applications, revising publications, and analysing student responses to exams (via Futurism).
