The headline here is generic, but the real TLDR of this article is that a security researcher was able to inject code into thousands of compilation environments by creating a real library that matches the name of a library that is commonly hallucinated in AI-generated code. Apparently many references to the nonexistent library weren't cleaned up by any human in the loop.
This is another interesting supply-chain attack risk that seems fairly novel.
I wonder if we could change the headline to a better summary, like "Malicious code injection when AI hallucinations reference a nonexistent library"? (I tried to submit under that title but got redirected to this existing thread).
