AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware
March 28, 2024 at 03:10AM Generative AI concocts fake software packages, adopted by businesses like Alibaba, which unknowingly incorporate these non-existent dependencies into their software. The experiment demonstrates that malicious actors could create and distribute malware under the guise of these AI-hallucinated package names, potentially endangering unsuspecting developers who follow the AI’s suggestions. The meeting … Read more