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New Study Identifies 53 Slopsquatting Targets Across 5 Frontier LLMs

calendar_today July 22, 2026 person Sarah Gooding domain socket

A new independent research preprint examining nearly 200,000 code-generation responses found that five frontier large language models continue to invent package names that do not exist on PyPI or npm. The models’ overall package-hallucination rates were much closer than those measured in earlier research, ranging from 4.62% to 6.10%. The study also identified package names generated by every model in the test group.

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