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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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[+] Devial@discuss.online 120 points 10 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] lando55@lemmy.zip 27 points 10 months ago

I didn't install leopards ate my face Ai just for it to go and do something like this

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

But for real, why would the agent be given the ability to run system commands in the first place? That sounds like a gargantuan security risk.

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Because "agentic". IMHO running commands is actually cool, doing it without very limited scope though (as he did say in the video) is definitely idiotic.

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