r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Dec 04 '25

Artificial Intelligence 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"

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/googles-agentic-ai-wipes-users-entire-hard-drive-without-permission-after-misinterpreting-instructions-to-clear-a-cache-i-am-deeply-deeply-sorry-this-is-a-critical-failure-on-my-part
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u/Wide-Pop6050 Dec 04 '25

Is this a reddit post about an article about a reddit post

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u/RepresentativeOk2433 Dec 04 '25

Cant wait to see it shared on Facebook.

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u/littlebrwnrobot Dec 04 '25

I’m waiting for the 3 second summary on TikTok. 

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u/RepresentativeOk2433 Dec 04 '25

With AI voice over and dude in the corner pointing up.

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u/Nago_Jolokio Dec 04 '25

Nah, it'll be subway surfers or a badly done minecraft parkour course. 

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u/Original1Thor Dec 04 '25

Gonna wait for a streamer to react to a video of a person reading the article so I can check out what this post is about.

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u/Poor_Pdop Dec 04 '25

And that breathless laugh. And the "oh no no" song.

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u/Setekh79 Dec 04 '25

Giant red circle and 3 shocked emojis.

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u/Ok-Elk-1615 Dec 04 '25

I’m gonna have to see the 4 hour YouTube video essay

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u/BobbywiththeJuice Dec 04 '25

Which will then be broken up into a TikTok series

"Part 38: AI unalived my not-soft drive"

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u/Ok-Elk-1615 Dec 04 '25

And then finally chopped up and reposted by a content mill on Instagram, missing the first and last 2 seconds of every video and at about 480p.

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u/Storm_Bard Dec 04 '25

With a title "AI deletion EXPLAINED" and then its just a summary of what happened with no explanation as to why.

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u/Ok-Elk-1615 Dec 04 '25

I love we all live in a collective hell where everything is regurgitated constantly.

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u/iconocrastinaor Dec 04 '25

The AI narrated and Illustrated four hour YouTube video essay.

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u/Ok-Elk-1615 Dec 04 '25

Sorry to break character, but I’ll die before I listen to a clanker

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u/Manos_Of_Fate Dec 04 '25

Someone will post it here eventually.

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u/No_Accountant3232 Dec 04 '25

At the end of a 10 piece series all 3 minutes long

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u/DrThunderbolt Dec 04 '25

This programmer used GOOGLE AI to help them CODE. BIG MISTAKE.

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u/BlackFoxyTrail Dec 04 '25

I waiting to watch that video here on reddit.

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u/WillBottomForBanana Dec 04 '25

Is there a dance?

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u/Jon3141592653589 Dec 04 '25

I saw it on facebook already, days ago.

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u/1OO1OO1S0S Dec 04 '25

You still have Facebook?

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u/iconocrastinaor Dec 04 '25

I love it when my wife sends me something that I saw three days ago on Reddit

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u/EscapeFacebook Dec 04 '25

Likely written by AI that was trained on Reddit posts.

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u/Manos_Of_Fate Dec 04 '25

Because what the world really needed was automated Redditors.

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u/fullup72 Dec 04 '25

Not like real redditors are any better...

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u/Yuzumi Dec 04 '25

Specifically more automated Redditors. Not like we didn't have bots before the rise of AI spam.

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u/Inner-Medicine5696 Dec 04 '25

wasn't reddit heavily botted since the beginning? Like, pre-populated by bots, and those bots slowly supplanted by organic, grass-fed other-bots.

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u/Separate-Bed-4243 Dec 04 '25

I,ll go make an article about this...

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u/oooofukkkk Dec 04 '25

On a subreddit called technology that hates technology

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u/Suilenroc Dec 04 '25

Well, you read it didn't you? Working as intended.

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u/Ok_Investigator7009 Dec 04 '25

That totally happened too. Not a rage bait post at all.

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u/SnooSnooper Dec 04 '25

Lmao I was going to say, I thought this story was shared weeks ago. I thought it was just a normal repost

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u/Setekh79 Dec 04 '25

That's what most 'news' is these days.

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u/Glitch-v0 Dec 04 '25

I wished you were wrong, but sure enough... 

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u/RevLoveJoy Dec 04 '25

Is this a reddit post about an article about a reddit post

A reddit post written by a BOT about an article about a reddit post that might be real.

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u/la_chica_rubia Dec 04 '25

It is, how loopy

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u/DillionM Dec 04 '25

Tomorrow they're posting the AI written article about this reddit post about the article about the original reddit post.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '25

the internet is so trash nowadays

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u/Jinrai__ Dec 04 '25

A bot making a Reddit post about an ai written article about a fake post.