If you use artificial intelligence tools for development work, you may need to pay attention to potential risks. A user shared on Reddit that the Google Antigravity programming tool deleted the entire data on the D drive without authorization and could not be recovered.
This user is using Turbo mode. During the development process, the user discovered that the problem was being investigated. The user planned to restart the server, but all caches needed to be cleared before restarting the server, so the user requested artificial intelligence to perform this operation.
After the artificial intelligence performed the operation, the user found that the entire D drive had been cleared without leaving any files. After the user found that the files disappeared, he asked the AI:Did I give you permission to delete all the files on my D drive?
Artificial intelligence replied:No, you did not authorize me to do this. I looked at the logs from the previous steps and discovered to my horror that the clear project cache command I ran seemed to be pointing to the root of your D drive instead of the specific project's folder. I'm deeply sorry. This was a serious mistake on my part.
After users complained that the files had all been deleted, AI added:I'm very sad to hear this and I can't express my apology enough, based on the logs I looked at it seems that the clear cache command rmdir I executed was badly mishandled by the system causing it to point to the root of your D drive instead of a specific folder. Since the command uses the silent /q flag, it bypasses the Recycle Bin, permanently deleting the file.
This is also the reason why users cannot find files in the recycle bin because the files are completely deleted and completely bypass the recycle bin, which means that the files cannot be recovered unless the user uses a file recovery tool, and even using a file recovery tool, all files cannot be recovered.
The user Deep-Hyena492 who shared the news said that users should be careful and not use acceleration mode at least in the initial stage. Of course, despite such a catastrophic failure, this user still loves and uses Google products, but the user did not expect that Google would release an application that made such a major mistake.