AI hallucinations lead to a new cyber threat: Slopsquatting

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It seems like a natural response to using AI for package spoofing is to use AI to look for malware in each release of each package. It&#x27;s a red queen&#x27;s race, so we&#x27;ll never win, but we lose if we don&#x27;t run.