by Thinus Ferreira
"Gud hjälpe mig" is Swedish and translates to " God help me. It's what the Swedish producers of the The Challenge Sverige probably said after an AI bot got loose inside its production server and destroyed and deleted the entire, edited upcoming second season of the reality show.
Just weeks before the The Challenge Sverige is set to premiere on 22 November, an AI got loose in its production server and destroyed the entire upcoming show.
The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reports that hundreds of staffers at the Mastiff production company will now have to redo the second season of The Challenge Sverige, which has now abruptly been postponed to 2027 on the TV4 channel. Because of AI.
Luckily the raw footage exists, so producers and editors all have to restart from there.
A TV4 publicist told the newspaper that "What we have received from the production is that there has been a technical failure that has caused material that has been cut to disappear and that we therefore have to re-cut it again. And that we therefore need to postpone the premiere to 2027."
