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1 in 5 Packages Your AI Suggests Don't Exist. Attackers Know Which Ones.
Community description: You ask your AI assistant how to do something. It gives you clean, confident code, with an install...
Dev.to | Sep 30, 2026 | James Anderson
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Across those hallucinations, the researchers logged 205,474 unique non-existent package names [2]. Same prompt, same model, same invented package, over and over. Hallucinated install commands propagate by copy-paste.
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