Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundreds of days of work gone"

lensecat

Interview with show host: https://www.aviaduct.com/?l=og+en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aftonb...

s0ja

Impossible to read the website let alone configure cookies.

GaryBluto

Could dang or tomhow manually decontract the title?

pure-orange

Same energy as blaming an intern for dropping your production table. If one entity can delete all your data, that’s on your systems not them

dumberquestions

How easily can files completely disappear just like that? You usually have to be very intentional about it to make even a partial recovery impossible.

deno

If the title was "TV studio does not have backups" this would be a non-story. The fact it was deleted by agent and not human doesn't really matter.

PinguTS

No backup, no mercy.

jd24

smells like bs

traktorn

In your face AI Doomers! The AI is creating more jobs!

dist-epoch

If they were stored in S3, or a similar service, and the agents deletes them, there is no way to recover them, right? I know google has some manual process (forms) to request "undeletion" of personal Google Drive files.

verytrivial

Okay, but was it actually almost finished and ready? People can act unpredictably[1] under pressure instead of asking for help. It very probably was, but it just reminded me of this oversight failure mode. [1] https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the_brillant_paula_bean

INTPenis

This is the same as using commands like rm the wrong way. The agent didn't do it, you did it! You didn't use the agent/tool properly!

mkl

Production company doesn't bother backing up hundreds of days of work, blames irresponsibly used AI for its own failure.

kaon_2

I always thought that delete doesn't really exist? In the sense that it you take the hard drive to a specialist they can often recover it? Maybe I am wrong?

suddenclarity

Modern version of "the dog ate my homework"? I can't even imagine a scenario where an AI agent manages to unrecoverably delete all working material and backups. I'm cynical and can't help thinking it's all marketing to postpone a reality show no one cared about.

ethin

All these "accidents" with agents just makes me want to use them less, not more. Then again, I don't use agents because they consume tokens at an absurd rate, so...

glimshe

Doesn't sound so bad if rephrased as "AI prevents the release of yet another reality show"