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Any unusual voting pattern would certainly make it more likely that Stackoverflow noticed and investigated. But I wonder how many people are likely to try downl
by entuno 2y ago
Any unusual voting pattern would certainly make it more likely that Stackoverflow noticed and investigated. But I wonder how many people are likely to try downloading a library they've never heard of from a post with zero upvotes?
Of course, once an LLM scrapes that answer and regurgitates it, then you'd never know.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y agoI’ve found that LLMs develop hallucinations from questionable answers. Since Swift allows extensions of fundamental types, these hallucinations can be quite convincing.
- vertis 2y agoA truly patient malware author wouldn't even necessarily need to make it obvious. You could upvote something over the course of six months and still have a very negative impact. Hell, you could create a library, not have malware in it, answer the questions, wait six months, add the malware. Oh wait, I'm not a criminal. Forget I said that. Patience is unlikely for individuals, but it becomes a real concern when you come to the point of state-based actors. I regularly use Python libraries in my work that emulate Excel. and they're so often out of date, they're so abandoned/unloved for the most part because the people that write them eventually move on and they don't have a big enough user base. That means that they're ripe for somebody inserting stuff. Worse Excel is usually used by big companies, so it's a target as well.