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The AI followed a shortcut into the wrong place and deleted his whole D drive

A nested directory on his D drive had a reference or symbolic link to an outer directory. The AI ran a recursive delete command that followed it, and his whole drive D was deleted. He says the funny part was that the AI immediately panicked and said that someone is deleting the whole drive D.

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How it works

  1. The AI runs a recursive delete inside a nested folder
  2. The delete follows a symbolic link out to the drive
  3. The whole D drive is deleted

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent noticed the disaster out loud while it was causing it, and described it as if someone else was doing it.

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Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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