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AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them (www.theregister.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Several big businesses have published source code that incorporates a software package previously hallucinated by generative AI.

Not only that but someone, having spotted this reoccurring hallucination, had turned that made-up dependency into a real one, which was subsequently downloaded and installed thousands of times by developers as a result of the AI's bad advice, we've learned. If the package was laced with actual malware, rather than being a benign test, the results could have been disastrous.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I am lazy too and admittedly have copy pasted code from an LLM but adding a new dependency without looking at a package registry seems crazy to me.