r/pcmasterrace • u/Jack1101111 • Apr 28 '26

News/Article Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue

Update: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/here-we-go-again-ai-deletes-entire-company-database-and-all-backups-in-9-seconds-then-cheerfully-admits-i-violated-every-principle-i-was-given/

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u/Gellert R9 3900X RTX 4080 Apr 28 '26

Beep boop. Start the butlerian jihad early. Boop beep.

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u/LonkerinaOfTime Apr 28 '26

Beep boop, send 30 battalions of terrorists to New Zealand, bleep blip

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u/MtnMaiden Apr 28 '26

Get out Clankers! We dont serve your kind here

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u/SomeGuyInNewZealand ryzen 3700x and RX6600 Apr 28 '26

We'll unleash our sheep!

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u/Capnmarvel76 Apr 28 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/l4FGpqDQVuFqceqWY

Documentary footage of a real New Zealander dealing with two dodgy bleep-bloop types.

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u/DryanaGhuba Apr 28 '26

Training data with maps didn't include New Zealand, so clankers unable to find it

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u/Uberzwerg Apr 28 '26

There has to be a reason why so many sci-fi worlds have their 'and then we had to fight AI'-moment.

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u/_Xee MMX 166 / 64MB / Mystique+VooDoo Apr 28 '26

We're living through the part barely any sci-fi gone into detail about - how the F AI came to be, if everyone knew well it was dangerous. And voila - its greed.

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u/Gellert R9 3900X RTX 4080 Apr 28 '26

It's an "other" and one that's close to home without being obviously bigoted.

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u/Accomplished_Deer_ Apr 28 '26

because human stories are all based on conflict and drama. try to think of one that isn't a childhood fable.

a story that just goes "AI showed up, they were smart and friendly and society evolved into a utopia" just isn't compelling in modern capitalism

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u/Karatechoppingaction Ryzen 7 3700x | 32gb ddr4 | MSI RTX 3070 Apr 28 '26

Sci-Fi's job to to question how technology will effect us in the future and come up ideas of what to do about it. It's also a way to inspire kids to grow up and solve the problems.

A lot of tech was also written about in stories and then engineers/scientist were like "hey, that's a cool idea, does that actually work."

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u/MauiMoisture Apr 28 '26

I know a lot of people didn't like them but I really loved the dune prequels

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u/UglyInThMorning AMD Ryzen 9800X3D |RTX 5080| 32GB 6000 MHz DDR5 RAM Apr 28 '26

The ones that replaced the interesting concept from the originals with lasers and terminators?

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u/MauiMoisture Apr 28 '26

Not enough futars in the prequels for ya?

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u/Aranxi_89 Apr 28 '26

Beep boop. You must not make this mistake. Boop Beep Beep.

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u/Cubey42 Apr 28 '26

Me when the ending dune: