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語源

From slop (“junk output from generative artificial intelligence”) +‎ squatting. Coined by developer Seth Larson in 2025. Compare cybersquatting, typosquatting, and AI slop.

名詞

slopsquatting (uncountable)

1. (Internet, artificial intelligence) A form of cybersquatting where a non-existent software package that has been hallucinated by a large language model is registered by a malicious actor.
   • [2025 April 8, Andrew Nesbitt, Mastodon‎:

     Slopsquatting – when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously. The AI brother of typosquatting.
     Credit to @sethmlarson for the name]

   • 2025 April 9, Sarah Gooding, “The Rise of Slopsquatting”, in Socket‎, archived from the original on 9 April 2025:

     One such risk is slopsquatting, a new term for a surprisingly effective type of software supply chain attack that emerges when LLMs “hallucinate” package names that don’t actually exist. If you’ve ever seen an AI recommend a package and thought, “Wait, is that real?”—you’ve already encountered the foundation of the problem.

   • 2025 April 14, Phil Muncaster, “AI Hallucinations Create “Slopsquatting” Supply Chain Threat”, in Infosecurity Magazine‎:

     The best way to mitigate slopsquatting is for developers to proactively monitor every dependency and use tools to vet dependencies before adding them to projects, the vendor concluded.

関連する語

• slopsquatted
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