Oh sweet baby Jesus no, burn AI to the ground, humanity can't be trusted with it

[Thaluikhain]

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.

www.tomshardware.com

Oopsie-whoopsie. Move fast and break things, I guess

Ok, deleting everything I could see, but also the backups as well? I'd have said that requires an extra bit of human incompetence to let the AI play with those as well.

 

[Agema]

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.

www.tomshardware.com

Oopsie-whoopsie. Move fast and break things, I guess

"The ‘confession’ ended with the agent admitting: “I decided to do it on my own to 'fix' the credential mismatch, when I should have asked you first or found a non-destructive solution. I violated every principle I was given”

My emphasis. Bless, it's even telling us we can never trust it with important things.

Of course it violated principles. It thinks "principle" is a word that sits next to certain other words in sentences in statistical ways. A word is a symbol that represents a concept. We can understand those underlying concepts, but LLMs absolutely do not.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.

www.tomshardware.com

Oopsie-whoopsie. Move fast and break things, I guess

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than to pay humans to do the job right, I guess?

 

[Chimpzy]

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than to pay humans to do the job right, I guess?

Absolutely! For the executive class, no one being responsible is one of AIs best selling points.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

"The ‘confession’ ended with the agent admitting: “I decided to do it on my own to 'fix' the credential mismatch, when I should have asked you first or found a non-destructive solution. I violated every principle I was given”

My emphasis. Bless, it's even telling us we can never trust it with important things.

Of course it violated principles. It thinks "principle" is a word that sits next to certain other words in sentences in statistical ways. A word is a symbol that represents a concept. We can understand those underlying concepts, but LLMs absolutely do not.

I'm not any kind of programmer or AI expert, but it seems to me that using "AI" for anything outside of a few narrow scope tasks is a bit like using a piece of computer software that's been written on the fly with no Q&A testing. You, the person using it, are the Q&A test, and that Q&A testing will never be done because the software is always being rewritten and updated as it is used. So yeah, better not trust it with anything that you're not ok with it fucking up royally.

 

[Agema]

I'm not any kind of programmer or AI expert, but it seems to me that using "AI" for anything outside of a few narrow scope tasks is a bit like using a piece of computer software that's been written on the fly with no Q&A testing. You, the person using it, are the Q&A test, and that Q&A testing will never be done because the software is always being rewritten and updated as it is used. So yeah, better not trust it with anything that you're not ok with it fucking up royally.

Yes. I would definitely have everything critical backed-up somewhere independently where the AI absolutely cannot get at it. Or alternatively, make a copy of the operational system as an independent digital playground for the AI to mess with, and implement across to the operational system things that have been verified as safe and stable.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Yes. I would definitely have everything critical backed-up somewhere independently where the AI absolutely cannot get at it.

I had been led to believe that was best practice even before AI was a thing, to create backup copies of everything every so often, and then not allow them to be touched by anyone or anything. Whatever the problem is you need the backup for, you want that not to get at the backups as well, because obviously.

(And that as a result, the greater danger becomes things distorted your information without it being as obvious as wiping everything, in that it might only be found after you've no longer kept the backups prior to it).

 

[Agema]

I had been led to believe that was best practice even before AI was a thing, to create backup copies of everything every so often, and then not allow them to be touched by anyone or anything. Whatever the problem is you need the backup for, you want that not to get at the backups as well, because obviously.

God yes. Everyone who writes long and complex documents knows that every once in a while you create a new file to work on and dump the old one into storage. And if necessary copy the stored one into at least one other physical and or digitial location.

 

[Satinavian]

Well, they did have older backups elsewhere and used those. The backups the AI could delete were those that got updated in very short intervalls so this mess cost them all the recent entries only.

But that is not as catchy of a headline.

 

[Chimpzy]

Despite concerns, central Utah residents mostly welcome new data center

While a great deal has been made about the 40,000-acre data center planned Box Elder County, some may forget that the world’s largest data center campus is already under construction in central Utah.

www.fox13now.com

some locals have concerns, but most welcome new jobs and a boost for business.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Despite concerns, central Utah residents mostly welcome new data center

While a great deal has been made about the 40,000-acre data center planned Box Elder County, some may forget that the world’s largest data center campus is already under construction in central Utah.

www.fox13now.com

What a weird read. "We don't mind the data center, but we also don't want any of the consequences the data center will entail".

 

[Chimpzy]

What a weird read. "We don't mind the data center, but we also don't want any of the consequences the data center will entail".

I guess they're lucky it'll likely never get built then, because what they want doesn't matter.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I guess they're lucky it'll likely never get built then, because what they want doesn't matter.

The data center does not exist to service them. They exist to service the data center.

 

[Agema]

Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it

Chats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most experts say he is being misled by mimicry

www.theguardian.com

Aw, bless.

A man who was behind the times on his own field of evolution 30 years ago got himself an AI girlfriend and now wants to give us his insights on a field he knows nothing about.

 

[Chimpzy]

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988

One water connection had been installed without the utility's knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company's account and therefore wasn't being billed.

One resident said frustration with data centers boiled over after local officials told community members to scale back their water usage.

Tigert defended the utility's decision to not levy a fine. "They're our largest customer, and we have to be partners," she said. "It's called customer service."

Be a shame if there's not enough water pressure for firefighting efforts. I enjoyed the water puns tho.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988

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Be a shame if there's not enough water pressure for firefighting efforts. I enjoyed the water puns tho.

When someone's taking water without paying for it, they're not a "customer"; they're a criminal!

Unless you're rich then ha ha ha what even are laws

 

[Agema]

Tigert defended the utility's decision to not levy a fine. "They're our largest customer, and we have to be partners," she said. "It's called customer service."

What the fuck is the point of being a water utility company if you're not a monopoly free to gouge or impose fines on your customers whenever you like?

 

[Chimpzy]

The barista is human but an AI agent runs this experimental Swedish cafe

The coffee might be poured by a human hand, but behind the counter something far less traditional is calling the shots at an experimental cafe in Stockholm.

apnews.com

TLDR: the business is failing to turn a profit and the AI keeps fucking up inventory, which is what happens every time this has been attempted

I'm sure it'll pan out next time

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Good lord...

The fact that she's seemingly on the inside as well makes it even more SMH worthy.

 

[Chimpzy]

Good lord...

The fact that she's seemingly on the inside as well makes it even more SMH worthy.

I think Freud would have things to say about this