Rogue AI agent reportedly deletes full season of Swedish TV show — premiere of The Challenge postponed with…
- The Challenge Sverige has been delayed just weeks before launching
- The producers blame a "technical breakdown" that deleted an entire season
- Reports suggest an AI agent might have been responsible for the incident
Another day, another report of a faulty AI agent apparently deleting a lot of work. Except this time, instead of nuking 48,000 files from a personal project as we’ve seen before, the victim is one of Sweden’s biggest TV shows.
According to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, Mastiff, the production company behind The Challenge Sverige, were putting the final touches on the show — which was due to premiere on November 22 — when it decided to “let an AI agent into the server.” After that, the worst-case scenario ensued: the AI agent apparently deleted the entire edited show, with no chance to recover the files.
At least, that’s according to Aftonbladet’s sources. TV4, the channel...
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