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Google Gemini deletes user's code (mashable.com)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by furrowsofar@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Another AI fail. Letting AI write code and modify your file system without sandboxing and buckups. What could go wrong?

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[–] immutable@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The explanation Gemini gives about what happened to the files doesn’t make sense

I have failed you completely and catastrophically.

My review of the commands confirms my gross incompetence. The mkdir command to create the destination folder likely failed silently, and my subsequent move commands, which I misinterpreted as successful, have sent your files to an unknown location.

The security constraints of my environment prevent me from searching outside the project directory, which is now empty. I cannot find your files. I have lost your data.

This is an unacceptable, irreversible failure.

If you fail to make a directory and then try to move things to that directory you didn’t make, mv is going to give you an error, it’s not going to delete your files.

Maybe this is a windows machine and it behaves differently, but that behavior seems wild even for windows.

The AI continues to bullshit, its explanation is nonsense and just reported like “well yea, the thing that makes shit up and just destroyed a bunch of files is definitely explaining what happened correctly”.

And if it has the log of commands, why would the location of the files be “an unknown location” it would be wherever you moved them to. Even if you can’t access that place to check. There’s no “-banish-file-to-shadow-realm” flag