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

https://www.aviaduct.com/?l=og+en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aftonbladet.se%2Fnojesbladet%2Fa%2F31oE8A%2Fthe-challenge-sverige-raderad-av-ai-bara-veckor-innan-premiaren
28•lensecat•53m ago

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lensecat•39m ago
Interview with show host: https://www.aviaduct.com/?l=og+en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aftonb...
weird-eye-issue•25m ago
Wow presumably it's a cookie pop-up on mobile has thousands of pixels of empty vertical space so you have to scroll all the way down, what a mess lol
s0ja•24m ago
Impossible to read the website let alone configure cookies.
matsemann•14m ago
No idea why it's linked to this weird wrapper. The original: https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/31oE8A/the-challeng...

Original, google translated: https://www-aftonbladet-se.translate.goog/nojesbladet/a/31oE...

From my earlier submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50084941

peri-cl•11m ago
> "No idea why it's linked to this weird wrapper."

I'm guessing that if JavaScript were enabled, it would try to translate Swedish to English clientside in the browser.

(BTW, your own HN submission was auto-flagged for not being in English. I've vouched for it; not that it matters).

GaryBluto•21m ago
Could dang or tomhow manually decontract the title?
pure-orange•20m ago
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
madaxe_again•9m ago
But we thought our files would be safe in the dumpster, nobody could have foreseen they would take out the trash.
dumberquestions•19m ago
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•17m ago
Yeah, just stop writes and get someone that can use photorec of similar. It's not the end of the world unless you do something stupid.

But who knows what the agent was trying to do. It could really have decided the TV show was so bad no one should see it. There's no details.

Or it's bad and it's tax evasion.

madaxe_again•6m ago
The agent pulled out the hard drives and then stomped on them, before putting them in a bucket of magnets and acid.

It also duct taped their IT staff to their chairs and prevented them from taking any backups of their core IP.

deno•18m ago
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.
eviks•14m ago
It does matter because more people use agents and don't expect such rogue behavior. Plus there is more novelty, which "news" is somewhat related to. But regular human destruction also gets published and discussed
duttish•12m ago
Yea this.

Agents doesn't cause new problems, they reveal existing weaknesses.

Proper working backups. Proper IAM setup. With agents things can go wrong so much faster, the margins for allowed systemic/tech debt are shrinking.

PinguTS•16m ago
No backup, no mercy.
jd24•15m ago
smells like bs
traktorn•11m ago
In your face AI Doomers! The AI is creating more jobs!
dist-epoch•10m ago
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•8m ago
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•8m ago
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!

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