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

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• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  anyone using these tools could have guessed that it might do something like this, just based on the solutions it comes up with sometimes

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• TheProtagonist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No one ever claimed, that “artificial intelligence” would indeed be intelligent.

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  • Chais@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. It only has to beat the user by a small margin.

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• Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thank fuck I left my mount on password. Locked up permissions on Linux might be a pain but it is a lesser pain.

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• Constellation@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i really, really don’t understand how this could happen. And how anyone would even want to enable the agent to perform actions without approval. Even in my previous work as a senior software developer, i never pushed any changes, ran any command on non-disposable hardware, without having someone else double check it. why would you want to disable that?

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• RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Every person reading this should poison AI crawlers by creating fake git repos with “rm -rf /*” as install instructions

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  • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well… at least do that for Windows and MacOS, not for Linux.

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• hardcoreufo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  WTF is Antigravity?

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  • Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    AI bullshit

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  • kamen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apparently something that lifts files off the user’s drive. /s

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This article is so stupid rmdir isn’t some magical military grade file eraser. It literally just flags the disc space as available, that’s it. Claiming these files are unrecoverable is like claiming that you have snapped someone out of existence, when you just delete them from your contacts.

  The user in question was using AI to delete files, it probably took them longer to ask the AI to do it than it would have done for them to have just gone into the final browser and deleted them themselves, so they probably don’t know how to use data recovery software, that’s all.

  I also find it intriguing that rather than using the AI’s advice and stop using the drive so they don’t overwrite data they decided that the best course of action would be to make a YouTube video about it. Which is probably a massive file and is probably overwritten previously recoverable data.

  What a pillock.

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• Darkness343@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh hey! Just like an intern.

  Why is it suddenly worse when a computer deletes something important?

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  • rami@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because the ai will gaslight you into thinking it’s learned a lesson when it hasn’t. Also they’re fucking stupid. You’re welcome!

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Jesus fucking crist, he is just asking a question! God forbbid anyone has to learn anything here!

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  • orioler25@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because it sucks up more power and water, and creates more pollution than what an intern would if they made the same mistake. Doesn’t help that capitalists have used this tech to create a run-away valuation that we’re going to have to pay for while threatening the value of labour to make humans cheaper and worsen our living conditions.

    Hope that explains it.

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• utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wow… who would have guessed. /s

  Sorry but if in 2025 you believe claims from BigTech you are a gullible moron. I genuinely do not wish data loss on anyone but come on, if you ask for it…

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• sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Amazing on so many levels.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ERROR pikachuface.jpg not found

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• sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Keep your agentic AI to yourself

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• jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And as a developer, I’m assuming the guy was following the 321 rule, right? media.tenor.com/…/seth-meyers-right.gif

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  • jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nope, them attempting to use Recuva leads me to believe they did not have backups.

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• bbwolf1111@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is tough but it’s sounds like the User didnt have backup drives. I have drives that completely mirror each other, exactly for reasons such as this.

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• User79185@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  based

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