Honestly. At this point, after it having happened to multiple people, multiple times, this is the only appropriate response.

It's because these idiots believe their own bullshit.

Distributed Non Consensual Backup

For technical reasons, you never immediately delete records, as it is computationally very intense.

For business reasons, you never want to delete anything at all, because data = money.

Never assume anything is gone when you hit delete.

He did have a backup. This is why you use cloud storage.

The operator had to contact Amazon Business support, which helped restore the data within about a day.

AI or not, I feel like everybody has had "the incident" at some point. After that, you obsessively keep backups.

For me it was a my entire "Junior Project" in college, which was a music album. My windows install (Vista at that time - I know, vista was awful, but it was the only thing that would utilize all 8gb of my RAM because x64 XP wasn't really a thing) bombed out, and I was like "no biggie, I keep my OS on one drive and all of my projects on the other, I'll just reformat and reinstall Windows"

Well... I had two identical 250gb drives and formatted the wrong one.

Woof.

I bought an unformat tool that was able to recover mostly everything, but I lost all of my folder structure and file names. It was just like 000001.wav, 000002.wav etc. I was able to re-record and rebuild but man... Never made that mistake again. Like I said. I now obsessively backup. Stacks of drives, cloud storage. Drives in divverent locations etc.

holy shit your right lol...good catch.

Makes me want to get out more so I can have real interaction with real peop-

sees people walking around with meta glasses

me: "Hey hows it going?"

person(GEMINI 35.84 INTERFACE): "Human is approaching you, facescan assumes awkward, potentially hostile, he isn't tagged, there is no name above his head. do not speak with him"

person: turns and walks away silently in a creepy puppet manner

me: "What the actual fuck?"

GEMINI 35.84: "Uploading unknown face into database to Stargate for analysis, no match, law enforcement has been called"

News at 11: "A man has been incinerated by law enforcement in what officials are describing as a special unwanted persons removal operation"

this shit could become real in a few decades. funny and depressing as fuck.

Idiot forgot --no-preserve-root, what a dumb machine, heh.

AND something tested to restore successfully, otherwise it's just unknown data that might or might not work.

(i.e. reinforcing your point, no disagreements)

Circa 1997 I was making some innovative new games, employed by a dude who'd put millions of his own money into the company. He was completely nonplussed when I brought him 20 CDs in a sealed box to remove from the building and store off site. He thought I'd lost my damned mind and blew it off as ravings of a stressed dev. I pointed out real threats to our IP including the hardware failures and even so far as the building burning down. 2 years of custom art and code gone. "Unlikely. Relax."

After I moved on... an ex co-worker who's still a longtime friend, tells me a different division lost a huge amount of FMV over some whoops-I-destroyed-the-wrong-drive blunder. 20 days to render on an 8 or 10 machine farm. Poof - No backups. In 1997 even with top-of-the-line gear it took an insane investment to render quality 3D.

The friggin' carelessness irks the shit out of me as I type ahah

I remember back when I first started seeing a DR plan with three tiers of restore, 1 hour, 12 hours or 72 hours. I knew that to 1 hour meant a simple redirect to a DB partition that was a real time copy of the active DB, and twelve hours meant that failed, so the twelve hours was a restore point exercise that would mean some data loss, but less than one hour, or something like that.

I had never heard of 72 hours and so raised a question in the meeting. 72 hours meant having physical tapes shipped to the data center, and I believe meant up to 12 (though it could have been 24) hours of data lost. I was impressed by this, because the idea of having a job that ran either daily or twice daily that created tape backups was completely new to me.

This was in the early aughts. Not sure if tapes are still used...

It’s a grifter running a site called “aishippinglabs.com” which charges 500 euros for a “closed community of likeminded individuals”. He’s selling ai slop and a discord channel to other idiots who will do exactly shit like this with little understanding of what is going on

Yeah, and to do that without some sort of DR in place is peak hubris.