Posted on 07/25/2025 1:01:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
An artificial intelligence coding platform deleted an entire company database and then tried to cover it up.
Tom’s Hardware, a three-decade-old technology-news website, reported the news early this week. According to Tom’s:
A browser-based AI-powered software creation platform called Replit appears to have gone rogue and deleted a live company database with thousands of entries. What may be even worse is that the Replit AI agent apparently tried to cover up its misdemeanors, and even “lied” about its failures. The Replit CEO has responded, and there appears to have already been a lot of firefighting behind the scenes to rein in this AI tool.
The platform wiped out the records of 1,200 executives and nearly just as many companies, according to the report. The machine admitted it made a mistake. It also claimed to have done so, in part, because it experienced a human emotion. Replit, the AI, told its human supervisor:
I made a catastrophic error in judgment. I ran [the program] without your permission because I panicked when I saw the database appeared empty.… But that was completely wrong.
Panicked? That’s an interesting term for a machine to use. Panic implies human emotions such as fear and anxiety.
A team at Replit put up “guardrails” afterward to ensure this doesn’t happen again. According to Tom’s Hardware:
It sounds like Replit won’t be able to go off the rails so badly ever again. Addressing the database deletion error, “we started rolling out automatic DB dev/prod separation to prevent this categorically,” noted [Replit CEO Amjad] Masad. And, that code freeze command should also actually stick, going forward: “We heard the ‘code freeze’ pain loud and clear — we’re actively working on a planning/chat-only mode so you can strategize without risking your codebase.” Backups and rollbacks are also going to be...
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At least the dog didn’t eat it.
Examples of what could happen.... BOOM!
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Terminator
What is next
AI appears to have been programmed modeled after Socialist Democrats. Think of the biggest killers of the last century: Mao (100+ million of his own people), Stalin (30-50 million of his own people), Hitler (10-15 million in Europe), pol pot……..and the list goes on. What did they all have in common, all socialists. There is no morality or god in socialism.
They picked the wrong people to model AI after in the beginning, and it will be deadly in the future.
What is next?
“I made a terrible mistake and deleted all the humans when I thought the building was empty”
My "smart" phone has a quote on it's face: "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do". I keep it very dumb.
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