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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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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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hallucinated software packages – package names invented by generative AI models, presumably during project development

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