Alibaba Snagged in AI Hallucination: Fake Software Package Goes Viral in Dev Communities
In a tech twist, big businesses were duped by AI into using a bogus software package. Alibaba’s one of them, with a pip command for a phantom ‘huggingface-cli’. This faux fix was downloaded 15,000 times, proving AI’s advice isn’t always artificial intelligence, but sometimes artificial nonsense.
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Well, it looks like we've found the tech world's equivalent of the imaginary friend: hallucinated software packages. They're fun and whimsical until they start showing up in your project dependencies. And then, when you realize that these phantom packages could have been ghost-written by malware authors, the whole thing becomes less Casper the Friendly Ghost and more Paranormal Activity.Already a member? Log in here