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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/21298994

I'm trying to feel more comfortable using random GitHub projects, basically.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Probably not. Obfuscation works, and might even depend on remote code being downloaded at either build time or run time.

There are a lot of heuristics you can use (e.g. disallowing some functions/modules) to check a codebase, but those already exist no AI required. Unless you call static analysis "AI", who knows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

But an AI can "realise" the code might be downloading something it doesn't need to. That's the point.

AI is "smart" and understands that you told it that the library was supposed to do something specific, and it can understand that and look for things that seem not correlated to the purpose of the repo.

[–] Sethayy 2 points 2 months ago

Its got a dataset of billions for tokens, youre better off running the stock market as an antivirus.

Instead if you care use specifically curated programs for the task, like antivirus'

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