Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure — cache wipe turns into mass deletion event as agent apologizes: “I am absolutely devastated to hear this. I cannot express how sorry I am"
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The user even made a screen recording to document his troubles
  • Devial@discuss.onlineEnglish
    1203·
    2 days ago

    If you gave your AI permission to run console commands without check or verification, then you did in fact give it permission to delete everything.

    • lando55@lemmy.zipEnglish
      271·
      2 days ago

      I didn’t install leopards ate my face Ai just for it to go and do something like this

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      1 day ago

      But for real, why would the agent be given the ability to run system commands in the first place? That sounds like a gargantuan security risk.

      • utopiah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Because “agentic”. IMHO running commands is actually cool, doing it without very limited scope though (as he did say in the video) is definitely idiotic.