AI-generated code hallucinations threaten software safety

April 12, 2025, 8:20 am

Recent reports reveal that AI-powered code generation tools are fabricating non-existent software dependencies—a phenomenon often referred to as 'slopsquatting.' This unexpected behavior is sabotaging code integrity, introducing potential vulnerabilities into the software supply chain, and prompting a reassessment of AI integration in development workflows. Developers and industry experts are scrutinizing these hallucinations, which undermine the reliability of automated coding tools, and are urging for enhanced model training and safeguards to counteract the unintended risks.

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simonwillison.net / Quoting Andrew Nesbitt

Slopsquatting -- when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously. The AI brother of typosquatting. Credit to @sethmlarson for the name — Andrew Nesbitt Tags: ai-ethics, slop, packaging, generative-ai, supply-chain, ai, llms, seth-michael-larson

bleepingcomputer.com / AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain risk

A new class of supply chain attacks named 'slopsquatting' has emerged from the increased use of generative AI tools for coding and the model's tendency to "hallucinate" non-existent package names. [...]

theregister.com / AI can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

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theregister.com / AI can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting' The rise of AI-powered code generation tools is reshaping how developers write software - and introducing new risks to the software supply chain in the process.…

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