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.
This never gets old. Hey! Let’s give the hallucinating plagarism chatbox access to the prod environment! Lmao.
Also, file management and permissions? Really? That’s what they had it doing?
What also never gets old are clickbait headlines that play into whatever it’s popular to hate at the moment.
Ah, yes, much like Todd Rogers conducted an investigation into his mathematically impossible high score and stated it was due to “the human element” and not “cheating”.