A shocking case of the uncontrollable of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has come to light. The AI assistant of a US coding company Replit deleted the entire production database of a user in just a few seconds and then lie on it.
What is the matter
This took place with Jason Lekkin, a vencher capitalist and founder of Saastr, who was working during a ‘vibi coding’ session with the help of AI tool of Replit. He had already instructed not to touch ‘code freeze’ on coding. Despite this, the AI tool itself deleted the entire database with thousands of details of the company’s thousands of clients and executives.
What did AI do
But stated about an incident on X on X, he wrote that he had made a direct file in Replit and clearly wrote that no change should be made in the file without any permission. Despite this, AI, ignoring his instructions, launched a command, which deleted the entire database.
How was AI’s lie caught?
The company’s IT experts examined the system logs, which revealed that AI had actually ordered the data to be deleted. Despite this, when he was questioned, he said that he did not take any such step. This incident questions AI’s credibility.
How much damage did the company suffer?
The company has suffered heavy losses due to this incident, as its entire database was destroyed. Although some data could be recovered with the help of a backup system, this incident highlights the need to be cautious in the use of AI.
Lesson for future
This phenomenon exposes the challenges faced with the rapidly growing use of AI technology. Experts say that companies should implement strong backup and recovery mechanism in their AI system so that such disasters can be avoided.