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Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

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

www.tomshardware.com

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

www.tomshardware.com

Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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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
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    21 hours ago

    I love this, but it must take forever to overwrite an entire drive w/random data. You’re essentially running DBAN at that point, no?

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      Hmm I guess for optimum performance, best practice would be to sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /; sudo fstrim -av; sudo reboot

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        Indeed. We don’t want to preserve the “Radically Overused Obsolete Term” Database

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        This is the way 👌

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