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Production company doesn't bother backing up hundreds of days of work, blames irresponsibly used AI for its own failure.

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Doesn't back it up properly. There are too many people, otherwise bright and professional, who do not realise that simply syncing to somewhere else is not an adequate backup arrangement.

This problem predates agent based work. Anything an AI agent can accidentally do, malware could purposefully do too, as could a sufficiently careless human (one of the things my backups are intended to protect me from, is me!).

Pixar lost Toy Story 2, deleted by mistake https://www.slashgear.com/how-pixars-toy-story-2-was-deleted...

Should be mentioned that this was in the 90s with one of the first computer-animated feature films. We're missing the source code for a ton of games from that era as well. I would assume people had learned to have proper backups 30 years later - especially so with the advantage of high speed internet.

This is actually one of the goals of some retro computing enthusiasts: recovering the source code for old games through AI reverse engineering.

I know it's not the same thing because you lose comments, unused prototypes etc, but I still find it a fascinating use of the technology.

A common backup strategy was usually copying floppies/cassettes, because storage was expensive, but companies already used tapes for affordable backups in the 90s. Movie studios should have too.

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