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Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

this is an "Don't allow anyone access your backups without following protocol." problem.

Congratulations you just identified the AI problem.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 3 points 1 hour ago

These protocols predate LLMs

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That's the lone problem?

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Seems to be, yes. The AI had the access it needed to do the job it was given, and that access allowed it to cause the problem.

The alternative that would have prevented this issue was to not use AI for this.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 points 23 minutes ago

A human with the same permissions would have been capable of fucking up too. Giving the equivalent of a junior dev with a learning disability the keys to the whole place is just dumb.

(Relying on AI is dumb anyway, but that's not the biggest issue in this specific case)