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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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[–] 47 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Wait! The delveloper absolutely gave permission. Or it couldn't have happened.

I stopped reading right there.

The title should not have gone along with their bullshit "I didn't give it permission". Oh you did, or it could not have happened.

Run as root or admin much dumbass?

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    It reminds me of that guy that gave an AI instructions in all caps, as if that was some sort of safeguard. The problem isn't the artificial intelligence it's the idiot biological that has decided to ride around without safety wheels.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    I think that's the point, the "agent" (whatever that means) is not running in a sandbox.

    I imagine the user assumed permissions are small at first, e.g. single directory of the project, but nothing outside of it. That would IMHO be a reasonable model.

    They might be wrong about it, clearly, but it doesn't mean they explicitly gave permission.

    Edit: they say it in the video, ~7min in, they expected deletion to be scoped within the project directory.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I think the user simply had no idea what they are doing. I read their post and they say they are not a developer anyways, so I guess that explains a lot.

    They said in a post: I thought about setting up a virtual machine but didnt want to bother.

    I am being a bit hard on them, I assumed they knew what they were doing: Dev, QA, Test, Prod. Code review prior to production etc. But they just grabbed a tool, granted it root to their shell and ran with it.

    But they them selves said it caused issues before. And looking at the posts on the antigravity page, lots of people do.

    They basically started using a really crappy tool without any supervision as a noob.

    He said "I didn't know I needed a seatbelt for AI". LIKE WHAT THE FUCK. Where have you been that you didn't know that these tools make mistakes. You make mistakes. Everything makes mistakes.

    If you go to googles antigravity page, I would quick Nope the fuck out. What a shit page.

    Edit: 1 more thing: There is a post where one of the users says something along the lines of: "of course I gave the AI full access to my computer, what do I have to hide"? The level of expertise is stupid low....

    Edit2: Also, when shown the screen that says "dont allow terminal commands" and also "dont allow auto excution", they decided to turn those off. Also saying well that is tedious.

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