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Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure
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this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2025
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Wait, did reddit make a deal with Google for data mining?
Yes. Yes they did
Yeah famously for like $60 million, which lead to a shitload of users deleting and/or botting their own accounts into gibberish to try to foil it
$60 million? That's all?! Jeez reddit really is owned by pawnshop crack heads.
They got what they paid for I guess.
Oh you've missed so much. Yes, they did. Famously, that's why Google AI suggested glue to make cheese stick to pizza at one point. Because of a joke on reddit made by user "fucksmith" some 11 years earlier.
New challenge to try at home: "plug a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs"
Also, recipes for poison sandwiches and chlorine gas.
Pretty sure it's also going to tell people to alt f4 as well.
Have you been in a coma?
I wish