Cory DoctorowApr 1, 2024

Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

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AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware

Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that

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Show threadAlt Text Hall of FameApr 1, 2024
@pluralistic Please don't add copyright information to the image description, it makes it useless for blind people.
Show threadCory DoctorowApr 1, 2024

@alttexthalloffame No, I will continue to do so because the alternative is to risk $150,000 copyright charges at the hands of predatory copyleft trolls:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/24/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator/

A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Show threadRajnhildo Ursidino  Apr 1, 2024
@pluralistic @alttexthalloffame Then put it in the main text, just like these words.
Show threadCory DoctorowApr 1, 2024
@reinhilde @alttexthalloffame I do, on character-unlimited platforms (e.g. Medium and Tumblr).
Show threadRajnhildo Ursidino  Apr 1, 2024
@pluralistic @alttexthalloffame Ask mamot to patch their installation to raise the character limit.
Show threadCory Doctorow
@reinhilde @alttexthalloffame https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how-to-make-the-least-worst-mastodon-threads/
How To Make the Least-Worst Mastodon Threads – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Apr 1, 2024 at 9:02pmWeb
Show threadRajnhildo Ursidino  Apr 1, 2024

@pluralistic @alttexthalloffame You still aren’t helping your case, Cory.

Attribution belongs in the main text. Not cluttering the alt text, which is for screen reader users to know what the image is supposed to be.