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  • nice to see ai making the same mistakes as I did
    by tryauuum
  • Let me rephrase that for you:

    “When the owners of Bengaluru heritage work failed to back up their previous work, it was lost when accidentally deleted”

    Do you notice something? Pay close attention to the detail. It’s hard to spot….. I did not blame AI/Claude.

    by andrewstuart
  • I want to laugh at an "IT professional" not doing backups, but hmm, the article turned to a mirror...
    by netsharc
  • Cars have autopilot too. It doesn't free the driver from the duty to watch the road, and most importantly from having a driver's license. That's what happened here: someone with no understanding of how any of it works went into a database with an agent.
    by elias_junit
  • The user is of course responsible for this, but I don't think all the blame rests with him.

    He's using a tool that he pays for, that has been sold to him as hyper-capable and autonomous (even with the small-text warning about it being able to make mistakes). The providers of the tool are also responsible, even if only for the misleading advertising.

    by Planktonne
  • > he asks who is accountable when an AI agent causes autonomous damage

    He is. On the other hand, when a tool of massive power becomes increasingly easy to use, it becomes increasingly easy to misuse, intentionally or not.

    The question is if self-regulation is enough. Not that I necessarily trust legislators to know any better. But like we have observed from the world of agentic coding, sometimes two stupid things can behave as a unit of higher intelligence than the individual parts.

    by fnordsensei
  • Without backups, odds are good it was going to happen eventually, regardless of Claude's involvement. Yeah, it sucks, but humans make mistakes, too. And, sometimes disks fail.

    Anyway, people are far too trusting of their own ability to be perfect and the models' ability to be perfect. Which is why you have to keep backups if you value your data.

    by SwellJoe

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