I wonder how many similar stuff need to happens before people realize they still need to keep their brains on when using AI and know what they're doing.

Agent deletes my data is the new dog ate my homework.

Is "AI deleted it" the new "my dog ate it" ?

I would be so fucking mad if I worked on this and some producer just gave AI direct access to the only copy.

The article plainly states that the production company says it wasn't AI, but instead that it was human error that led to the data loss.

The AI-thing was merely a rumour.

In 1997 a company I worked for "lost" a month of fully rendered 3D video. Big deal you're saying, but 30 days of a rendering farm in 1997 was worth a couple hundred thousand dollars.

Somebody formatted the drive by accident.

This shit happens all the time, it's appallingly common. I guarantee some idiot somewhere in the chain of command said no we are not budgeting $1,000 for a couple RAID arrays or backup drives

Whatever the agent was actually doing, the real failure is that it had destructive write access to the only copy of finished work. That's a permissions problem before it's an AI problem — no automation, human or otherwise, should be able to hard-delete production assets without a human confirming the destructive step.

The fact that the season is just gone also tells me there was no immutable backup or soft-delete tier behind it, which is rough for a broadcast workflow where the footage is irreplaceable. Agents are getting broad tool access by default right now, and this is the cautionary tale for giving them delete rights alongside read rights.

No backups? Maybe I can understand not having full duplicates due to the cost, but surely it was on a system with at least snapshots in place or something right??

How do you not have backups of this?

But they can restore from backups. They backed up their data, right?

Good. The more thins shit happens the more people will rip relying on it and see it as the unreliable bullshit that it is.

Oof.

As someone who edits my own videos for YouTube, can't imagine how much work that was. Just gone. Poof.

Oh well. Don't use bullshit AI next time.

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The headline is an example of a new grammar structure, the agentic passive voice.

Nope.