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.

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    7 months ago

    I actually haven’t tried it this way. I just asked it to write the tests for whatever class I was on and it started spitting some stuff at me. I’ll try your way and see.