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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years ago

AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them

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AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years ago

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Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that

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we just experienced this with LZMA on debian according to recent reports. 2 years of either manufactured dev history, or one very, very weird episode.

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