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Can you trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations? (vulcan.io)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From https://twitter.com/llm_sec/status/1667573374426701824

People ask LLMs to write code
LLMs recommend imports that don't actually exist
Attackers work out what these imports' names are, and create & upload them with malicious payloads
People using LLM-written code then auto-add malware themselves

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

It's terrifying that someone would build off suggestions from ChatGPT without verifying the packages they are installing.