AI, the inevitable future of entertainment, reportedly deletes upcoming season of Sweden's The Challenge

Good news, Hollywood: You no longer have to blame lost Nicolas Cage movies on theft. AI will do the dirty work for you. The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet (via Futurism) reports an AI agent deleted the entire upcoming season of the Swedish version of the MTV reality competition The Challenge, called The Challenge Sverige, before its November 22 premiere. According to the report, there is no hope of recovering the files, forcing editors to redo their hard work from scratch. This is hardly surprising. Studies show that AI, which is heralded as a time-saver, creates more work, not less. Still, one would hope that the technology that studios are so bullish on wouldn’t delete a finished product. Nevertheless, Aftonbladet‘s sources say the deletion happened after Challenge Sverige‘s production company, Mastiff, uploaded an AI agent to its servers.