The Swedish edition of the athletic competition show The Challenge just faced a real challenge when an AI agent deleted months of work editing the show just weeks before release. The program director blames the disaster on a failed backup system, leaving no way to recover the edit and forcing them to recut the entire season from the raw footage that thankfully was not deleted.
According to Aftonbladet’s sources, the AI agent was given access to the production server and deleted the finished season. There are no reports on what the AI agent’s role on the production server is, but it seems that file management may be one of them due to file-handling permissions. TV4, the commissioner of the show, conducted an investigation and stated the mishap was due to “the human factor” and not AI.
One of the most prominent teachings of backing up is that data is still not safe from the user despite having redundancies; RAID systems protecting data from drive failures are one thing, while accidental deletions are another — however, an AI agent deleting your files is something else entirely.
TV4, the commissioner of the show, conducted an investigation and stated the mishap was due to “the human factor” and not AI.
The AI cannot fail, it can only be failed. ಠ_ಠ
In south Florida, it’s very common to encounter big, ugly, bumpy, toads. Sometimes they hop and bump into you. I don’t know if it’s true, but everyone says they’re poisonous. And that you shouldn’t touch them. They poop rather large. They hop into people’s pools. They’re very unwelcome most of the time. They are invasive and causing inconveniences for people and, of course, the natural habitat. But they’re here to stay.
Ai is like those toads.
Good
That’s why my development system is as far separated from the rest of the development team. I don’t use AI (it would be rather worthless for my kind of job, anyway), but our Windows developers play AI feeder all day.
No, I will not switch to use Git. Especially not your git server / repository. I stay with Subversion, on my own server, to which they don’t have access.
And I have my own offline backups.
