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db0 to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them

www.theregister.com

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AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them

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Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that
  • @QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world
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    19•1 year ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination_(artificial_intelligence)

    • @Prandom_returns@lemm.ee
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      -28•1 year ago

      It’s as much as “Hallucination” as Tesla’s Autopilot is an Autopilot

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Autopilot

      I don’t propagate techbro “AI” bullshit peddled by companies trying to make a quick buck

      Also, in the world of science and technology a “Standard” means something. Something that’s not a link to a wikipedia page.

      It’s still anthropomorphising software and it’s fucking cringe.

      • @surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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        26•1 year ago

        Oh man, I’m excited for you. Today is the day you learn words can have two meanings! Wait until you see what the rest of the dictionary contains. It is crazy! But not actually crazy, because dictionaries don’t have brains.

        • @Prandom_returns@lemm.ee
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          -24•1 year ago

          Wow, clever. Did you literally hallucinate this yourself or did you ask your LLM girlfriend for help?

          And by literally, I mean figuratively.

          • Boomer Humor Doomergod
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            20•1 year ago

            You’re gonna be real pissed to find out that computer bugs aren’t literal bugs

            • Flying Squid
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              1•1 year ago

              Although they did start out that way-

              https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/worlds-first-computer-bug/

            • @T156@lemmy.world
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              1•1 year ago

              Well, until a moth gets into your relays, anyhow.

            • @Prandom_returns@lemm.ee
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              -17•1 year ago

              I know it’s a big word, but surely you can google what anthropomorphization is? Don’t “ask” LLM, those things output garbage. Just google it.

              • @bbuez@lemmy.world
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                9•1 year ago

                Watch out those software bugs may start crawling out of your keyboard

              • @laughterlaughter@lemmy.world
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                1 year ago

                Like, literal garbage? The one sitting in my kitchen bin?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!!?!

              • @QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world
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                No fucking shit it’s an anthropomorphization, nothing that can be hosted on GitHub has true human qualities…

                The point is that everyone knows what it means within that context of AI, and using other terminology would only serve to obfuscate your message such that the average person couldn’t understand it as easily.

                Non-living things also don’t have “behavior” (“the way in which someone conducts oneself or behaves”, but—hey look! People started anthropomorphizing things so much that it got added to the dictionary! (“the way in which something functions or operates”.)

                It may not be ideal, and convince some people that LLMs are more human-like than they really are, but the one thing you haven’t done is suggest an alternative that would convey its meaning as effectively to the masses.

              • Flying Squid
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                You call it a large language model, but there are much bigger things, it’s only approximating a human language, and it isn’t a physical model.

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