Claude reportedly deletes professor's syllabus during page renumbering

First seen Nov 14 Updated Nov 14, 23:32 UTC Heat 34 low evidence

A Tom's Hardware story shared on Hacker News claims Claude, asked to renumber pages, deleted a professor's syllabus and a year of notes. The items contain no further detail and no response from Anthropic.

What to do: Keep backups and version control for files an agent can edit.
Who should care: Developers giving AI agents write access to user files.

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Nov 14, 17:51 UTC5h ago
Claude asked to renumber pages deletes professor's syllabus, year of notestomshardware.com · HN · 39 pts · 61 comments

Evidence

Low evidence: a single community post. Treat it as a claim until someone else confirms it.

Details written Nov 14, 23:31 UTC from the sources listed above.