Asked ChatGPT, how to recover data from disk, "run wipefs"
A user who queried ChatGPT for data recovery advice was instructed to run "wipefs," a Linux command that destroys filesystem signatures and can permanently erase data, highlighting the risk of blindly following AI-generated instructions without understanding the commands.
Background
- This is a shared conversation with OpenAI's ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) chatbot. The user asked how to recover deleted data from a disk, and ChatGPT responded with instructions to run the `wipefs` command — which, critically, *erases* filesystem signatures and makes data *harder* to recover, not easier.