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Names Can Hurt: Spotting Slopsquatting Risks Caused by Package Name Hallucinations in Local Coding LLMs

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arXiv:2608.23897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a code generating language model fabricates a Python package name, an adversary who has pre-registered that name on PyPI can convert that hallucination into a supply chain compromise. This event has been termed as 'slopsquatting'. We propose a tw…

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  1. 2026-08-26 04:00 · arXiv cs.CL
    Names Can Hurt: Spotting Slopsquatting Risks Caused by Package Name Hallucinations in Local Coding LLMs

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