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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them

www.theregister.com

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AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them

www.theregister.com

db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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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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    You’re gonna be real pissed to find out that computer bugs aren’t literal bugs

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      Well, until a moth gets into your relays, anyhow.

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      Although they did start out that way-

      https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/worlds-first-computer-bug/

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      I know it’s a big word, but surely you can google what anthropomorphization is? Don’t “ask” LLM, those things output garbage. Just google it.

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        Watch out those software bugs may start crawling out of your keyboard

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        Like, literal garbage? The one sitting in my kitchen bin?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!!?!

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        You call it a large language model, but there are much bigger things, it’s only approximating a human language, and it isn’t a physical model.

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