I have to ask; Why did this AI have access to backups.
The purpose of back ups is as insurance to loss of the primary working database.
This AI acts like a teenager.
They gave this AI program Root access to backups?
That’s why it sounds like BS to me. It probably deleted the transaction log.
From my understanding, it did not delete the backups—it deleted the volume(s) the backups were located on.
They didn’t give it access to all the backups. Apparently some bad provisioning done before the AI was involved or the structure of the repository use was made poorly. Humans could have done the same thing, not understanding how something it touched, really worked.
That is how I interpret it. It trusted the humans had set copies up in a rational way.
I know. The AI bot is talking in an irrational way, itself.
It has done a good job learning from humans.
That is what should scare us the most.
Well, if you say it like that, it doesn’t seem like a great idea.
The good news is the database is now completely safe from hackers.