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Exploiting hallucinated package names represents a form of typosquatting, where variations or misspellings of common terms are used to dupe people. Seth Michael Larson, security developer-in-residence at the Python Software Foundation, has dubbed it "slopsquatting" – "slop" being a common pejorative for AI model output.
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything Thomas Claburn 2025
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Slopsquatting -- when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously.
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Slopsquatting -- when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously.
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