Viberpsychosis Glossary
// The Actual Jargon

Slopsquatting

// What it actually means

An attack where someone registers software package names that AI models tend to hallucinate, so anyone who installs the suggested package gets malicious code instead.

// The diagnosis

Someone noticed your AI keeps inventing the same package and registered it. You installed it at 2am. It had a lovely README.

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