TL;dr Raw material is still there, backup routine was not working. No disclosure on what the AI was supposed to do.

I kinda half hope that they have to remake the entire show with a 10$ budget.

Can't blame AI for the stupidity of not having a backup.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!

While I'd love for this to be true, the TV channel has denied that an AI agent would be to blame for the lost footage.

Play stupid games, delete stupid shows

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

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

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.

How do you not have backups of this?

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

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??

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Nope.

https://youtu.be/0q6yphdZhUA

According to sources for Aftonbladet, Mastiff has allowed an AI agent into the server. Then the AI agent has deleted the pre-cut season of ”The challenge” from the server, with no possibility to recreate the project.

Rogue my butt. Someone must've tasked the thing to cleanup or update stuff and got monkey pawed.

I'll take "things that didn't happen" for $500. The AI didn't delete anything somewhere that it couldn't access on its own.

Someone gave the AI writing permission on a folder (or even drive) that shouldn't have it and then asked it to do something that obviously went as expected. People too dumb and lazy to do certain things are in charge of doing said things with AI leading to interesting results.

How many times do people have to keep getting burned before they stop sticking their hand in the fire?

That didn’t happen. But I bet someone’s very embarrassed to admit their mistake. “It was a rogue agent!!”

How can a word interpolation machine do anything on it’s own? Do they mean some script that feeds LLM things and then does things based on what it spews back? Who’s responsible for that script?

“Rogue” is just the inherent inaccuracy in ML models.

ML has metrics and those metrics all define how bad they are at doing the thing.

Thank God they didn't delete it in English, would have been soooo sad.