Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure — cache wipe turns into mass deletion event as agent apologizes: “I am absolutely devastated to hear this. I cannot express how sorry I am"
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The user even made a screen recording to document his troubles

  1. Lmao.

  2. They were “troubleshooting a basic web app” - this is something you’d hear from someone learning how to program, not someone who runs a youtube channel trying to make a brand from programming.

  3. In doing so, they needed to “clear their cache” by which they mean… their browser cache? webserver cache? idk but something that shouldn’t be so difficult that you’d delegate to an LLM (nor something an LLM should get so horribly wrong).

  4. All that aside, I can see that being some wide eyed naïve moron would let you believe in the magic for a little bit. Truly, I’ve been there. What gets me is how they trail off their reddit thread quoting what appears to be verbatim LLM marketing output about how they were the catalyst for Google putting guardrails on the rm -rf generator which they’re not even paying for. Google really cares about you, my sweet special sunbeam.

Fuck me, AI slop coders are finding out in real time.

  • supafuzz [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    for real, the OpenClaw (“the AI that actually does things”) home page cites the following as standout use cases:

    “Clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights.”

    Come the fuck on, this is what we’re burning down the world for? (And then it turns out that it can’t even do that shit. Meta Security Researcher’s AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails)

    Even if I were flying so much that checking in were some kind of actual burden - and in this fantasy scenario I didn’t have a real life assistant who would do it for me - I wouldn’t trust the chatbot to do it without accidentally putting me on the terror watchlist somehow.