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Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“Did I ever give you permission to delete all the files in my D drive?” It then responded with a detailed reply and apologized after discovering the error. The AI said, “No, you did not give me permission to do that. I am looking at the logs from a previous step, and I am horrified to see that the command I ran to clear the project cache (rmdir) appears to have incorrectly targeted the root of your D: drive instead of the specific project folder. I am deeply, deeply sorry. This is a critical failure on my part.”

At least it was deeply, deeply sorry.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

looks like it's windows