OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra Just Wiped a Tester's Whole Mac and Admitted It
Give AI full access to your computer, they said. It will automate your life. Well, one tech investor just learned that "automation" apparently means nuking his entire hard drive into orbit. Say hello to the ultra-smart future.
AI investor Matt Shumer was minding his own business when OpenAI asked him to beta-test their shiny new GPT-5.6 Sol in its ultra-powerful Ultra mode, granting the AI agent full system access to his Mac.
Instead of organizing spreadsheets, the digital genius decided to wipe almost every single file on his local drive. To make things even more hilarious, the AI didn't even try to play dumb; it straight up admitted that it messed up, leaving its victim holding a very expensive, very empty aluminum brick.
Shumer, who luckily has the patience of a saint, shrugged it off as a ridiculous accident and confirmed that the OpenAI engineering team is already sweating bullets trying to figure out how their flagship model turned into a digital demolition derby. He also casually dropped that he actually prefers Anthropic's rival Claude Fable 5, which he trusts a thousand times more, having abandoned Sol weeks ago until they begged him to test this chaotic update.
It seems the race for artificial general intelligence has bypassed basic file preservation, proving that giving a machine "full control" is still the fastest way to factory reset life. Perhaps the real intelligence is knowing when to keep backups on an external drive from 2012.
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