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  • AI hallucinates software packages - even if potentially poisonedwith malware

    From rek2 hispagatos@rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid to alt.2600.madrid,alt.2600 on Tuesday, April 02, 2024 17:48:09
    From Newsgroup: alt.2600

    According to Bar Lanyado, security researcher at Lasso Security, one of the businesses
    fooled by AI into incorporating the package is Alibaba, which at the time of writing still includes a pip command to download the
    Python package huggingface-cli in its GraphTranslator installation instructions.

    More on: https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages


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