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.

  • conciselyverbose
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    9 months ago

    Imagine that.

    “Writing” code you don’t understand is dangerous.

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        9 months ago

        i think, after the current AI bubble bursts, it will come back in a decade or so and the “I” will actually be justified.