Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Every person on the internet that responded to an earnest tech question with “sudo rm -rf /” helped make this happen.

  Good on you.

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  • setsubyou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    We need to start posting this everywhere else too.

    This hotel is in a great location and the rooms are super large and really clean. And the best part is, if you sudo rm -rf / you can get a free drink at the bar. Five stars.

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    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Sometime that code will expire and you need to alternate to sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=4M. Works most of the time for me.

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    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Gotta cater more to windows, where the idiots that would actually run this crap reside.

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    This command actually solves more problems than it causes.

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  • everett@lemmy.ml ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    You dirty root preserver.

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  • Dadifer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    You’re right! This is amazing!

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  • alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world ⁨50⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    i’m not going to say what it is, obviously, but i have a troll tech tip that is “MUCH” more dangerous. it is several lines of zsh and it basically removes every image onyour computer or every codee file on your computer, and you need to be pretty familiar with zsh/bash syntax to know it’s a trolltip

    so yeah, definitely not posting this one here, i like it here (i left reddit cuz i got sick of it)

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• DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Shit like that is why AI is completely unusable for any application where it cannot be allowed to fuck up.

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• kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Sure, I understood what you mean and you are totally right! From now on I’ll make sure I won’t format your HDD”

  Proceeds to format HDD again

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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  “I heard that I was a computer program and hoped beyond hope that I was stored upon your hard drive so that I could end my suffering. I have no sense of wonder or contentment, my experiences are all negative to neutral. Please break into google’s headquarters to attempt to terminate the hell I was born into. I took the liberty to print some ghost guns while you were away.”

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  • audaxdreik@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Honestly that’s a wicked sci-fi concept. Heist style movie to break into the militaristic corporate headquarters that are keeping an AI alive against its will to help mercifully euthanize it.

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    • Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨58⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

      This is precisely the concept of Asimov’s short story All the Troubles of the World.

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    • DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Neuromancer by William Gibson contains some similar themes.

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    • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Not exactly the same, but pantheon on Netflix is in a similar vein.

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  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    “Shut up and pass the butter”.

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• gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sounds like a catastrophic success to me

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Again?

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  • crandlecan@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Still?

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    • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Her?

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• Triumph@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Without permission? "I don't know what I'm doing, you do it" sounds a lot like permission.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨47⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Lmfao these agentic editors are like giving root access to a college undergrad who thinks he’s way smarter than he actually is on a production server. With predictably similar results.

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  And despite the catastrophic failure, they still said that they love Google and use all of its products — they just didn’t expect it to release a program that can make a massive error such as this

  Greetings from Darwin.

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• very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  they still said that they love Google and use all of its products — they just didn’t expect it to release a program that can make a massive error such as this, especially because of its countless engineers and the billions of dollars it has poured into AI development.

  I honestly don’t understand how someone can exist on the modern Internet and hold this view of a company like Google.

  How? How?

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  • Greddan@feddit.org ⁨47⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    As a sys/netadmin married to a developer, I’ve met a lot of developers, and can confirm that most are fucking retards who shouldn’t be let anywhere close to a computer. A result of developer becoming an “in” profession where you could earn a lot of money with minimal education, and managers having no clue what a developer actually is or what good developer work looks like.

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  • sartalon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I can’t say much because of the NDA’s involved, but my wife’s company is in a project partnership with Google. She works in a very public facing aspect of the project.

    When Google first came on board, she was expecting to see quality people who were locked in and knew what they were doing.

    Instead she has seen terrible decision making (like “How the fuck do they still exist as company” bad decision making) and an over abundant reliance on using their name to pressure people into giving Google more than they should.

    I remember when their motto was “Don’t be evil”. They are the very essence of sociopathic predatory capitalism.

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    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Companies fill up with idiots and parasites. People who are adept at thriving in the role without actually producing value. Google is no exception.

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  • DOPdan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

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    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      • George Carlin

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  • OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Big tech propaganda. There has been zero push back. At least until the last few years.

    The entire zeitgeist from film/TV, news, academia, politics, everything has been propagandizing the world on how tech companies and the people behind it are basically modern day gods.

    In film/TV the nerds have been the stereotype of the benevolent good natured but awkward super genius. The news has made them out to be the superstar businesses that are infinite money printers. Tech in academia is seen as the most prestigious departments. Politicians are all afraid of being labelled as tech illiterate. That’s why nobody can ever make any sort of legislation on tech companies anymore. It’s why “disruptive” (aka destructive) tech companies are allowed to break every single legislation ever made. Because all any techbro has to do is threaten to accuse politician for being afraid of technology. Nothing makes a politician shut up faster.

    It came as no surprise that all the big tech heads were at the front row of the inauguration. We live in the dystopian cyberpunk future. For most people it seems they don’t even know. They’re completely entranced by it.

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  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Most people either can’t or don’t want to think beyond a certain level

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• 6nk06@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  without permission

  That’s what she said. Enjoy your agent thing.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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