cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/[email protected]/p/2029848/an-ai-agent-deleted-a-fully-edited-new-season-of-the-swedish-tv-show-the-challenge-sver
But they can restore from backups. They backed up their data, right?
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.
Shouldn’t be giving them any rights at all
How do you not have backups of this?
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.
Humans run AI. Even if it was deleted by AI, it’s still the responsibility of the person running it.
i would say it’s the fault of whoever thought it was a good idea to hook it up to their data. the workers are just doing what they’re paid to do and trying to put up with literal insanity or risk termination.
I blame the one who should have set the backups. Even if it was deleted by a malicious actor, they there’s no excuse to not have backups
they say specifically “inte är en ”AI-agent som agerat självständigt”” (double quote). which translate to an "not an “AI agent which acted independently”. so depending if that counts as human error or not… still up to to debate. It probably was AI, just not someone shift+delete the wrong folder.
I do however blame the backup crew which definitely should’ve had their backups in place.
Let’s not let the truth get in the way of a sensationalist headline. It only matters that you click.
Is “AI deleted it” the new “my dog ate it” ?
“Timmy, why did the dog have root access?”
sudo eat -rf ./Homework
håhåhåhå
Nope.
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He’s the show’s host. So no, its not an interesting choice, its the obvious choice.
The person you’re responding to seems to be a repeated race baiter on here.
I’m reading in translation where he is credited with “leading” the program, which could be host or could be showrunner.
As showrunner, he’d have more call to be there. As host, even less.
“Someone majorly fucked up and also here’s a picture of someone” is kinda not great journalism, regardless.
He’s the public face of the programme as the host. As in, when the show is mentioned, its his face people recognise. Its standard unremarkable journalistic practice. Paranoia is not a good look.
Being the host makes it very not likely that he was the one responsible for managing the footage since those are two different jobs. That makes it unfortunate, if not borderline-libelous, to put his face on this article and give the impression that he was the one responsible for the fuck-up.
Its simply not reasonable for anyone to get the idea that the host was responsible because they are pictured in the article.
Can confirm, he is the host.
I don’t mind that he’s black, but he is cringe af as a television host. Not professional or eloquent at all. Not funny, but definitely trying his hardest to be so. Lame jokes that he laughs at himself, sometimes the only one who laughs, which is… uuughhh.
I think he is there to appeal to a certain subdemographic of youth, and that is definitely not me. 😬 I can imagine certain people like him for his performance though.
“Not professional or eloquent at all. Not funny, but definitely trying his hardest to be so. Lame jokes that he laughs at himself”
Sounds like the timeless qualifications for being a reality show host tbh
Well, we hold people to a higher standard on certain channels. A few select channels we expect a higher standard of entertainment because of their decades long history of quality. But uh, yeah. I guess this guy’s an acquired taste.
