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teekert • yesterday at 2:55 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

Ok, I have not seen any responses from anyone here that actually read TFA (which is almost like a fever dream, it does not deserve the A in TFA imho) but here is the whole F"A" (and it says AI did not delete material!):

The new season of TV4's reality show “The Challenge” has been postponed due to a technical failure. Large parts of the series have been deleted, Aftonbladet reports.

The newspaper reports that an edited season of the program was deleted by an AI agent, costing several hundred days of work. TV4 denies this.

    “It is not true that some independent AI agent went in and deleted the material,” says Mia Lindqvist, program director at TV4, to Sveriges Radio’s P4 Stockholm.
A backup system at the production company failed, she says.

    “This means they now have to edit everything from scratch.”
"The Challenge" was supposed to premiere on November 22. The series will now instead be shown “in late spring,” Mia Lindqvist says.

In "The Challenge", famous reality TV contestants face off in fierce competitions. The first season aired on TV4 in 2024.

Host Ahmed Berhan comments on the report in Aftonbladet.

    “Is that true?! I knew AI would be the death of me. This is just the beginning,” he says.

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1234974 • yesterday at 4:52 PM

It is a very specific denial only about and "independent agent". We could still have a "dependent agent" or simply an AI code slinger prompting:

  P: Claude, plz wr1te a backup with rsync!
  A: Rsync is not generally recommended for backups, but here you go.
  P: The sources and the backup are gone!
  A: Thank you for the honest correction! You are right to call me out. I have mixed up
     src and dest. This is a common problem with rsync. Would you like me to ...
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steve1977 • yesterday at 5:01 PM

Why would a failure of a backup system require editing everything again? Something must have gotten lost in translation here.

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bitwize • today at 3:01 AM

Not an independent agent.

"I'm so sorry. You asked me to edit episode 12 of the new season of The Challenge, and instead I deleted the episodes that have been edited so far. That's on me."

Forgeties79 • yesterday at 3:25 PM

I’m skeptical. No production operation has one layer of backups. At worst they should’ve lost a week or so of work depending on their SOP. Even the most shoestring operations run a 3-2-1 system.

It’s possible this is true but that would require serious negligence. Something/someone actively deleting it actually makes more sense. Doesn’t mean it’s the case of course.

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Lagoon3384_SWE • yesterday at 4:21 PM

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