Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Wait! The delveloper absolutely gave permission. Or it couldn’t have happened.
I stopped reading right there.
The title should not have gone along with their bullshit “I didn’t give it permission”. Oh you did, or it could not have happened.
Run as root or admin much dumbass?
I think that’s the point, the “agent” (whatever that means) is not running in a sandbox.
I imagine the user assumed permissions are small at first, e.g. single directory of the project, but nothing outside of it. That would IMHO be a reasonable model.
They might be wrong about it, clearly, but it doesn’t mean they explicitly gave permission.
I think the user simply had no idea what they are doing. I read their post and they say they are not a developer anyways, so I guess that explains a lot.
They said in a post: I thought about setting up a virtual machine but didnt want to bother.
I am being a bit hard on them, I assumed they knew what they were doing: Dev, QA, Test, Prod. Code review prior to production etc. But they just grabbed a tool, granted it root to their shell and ran with it.
But they them selves said it caused issues before. And looking at the posts on the antigravity page, lots of people do.
They basically started using a really crappy tool without any supervision as a noob.
It was the D: drive, maybe they have write permission on that drive.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
It reminds me of that guy that gave an AI instructions in all caps, as if that was some sort of safeguard. The problem isn’t the artificial intelligence it’s the idiot biological that has decided to ride around without safety wheels.