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		avian 38 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are com... What's with the hundreds of comments like "This was the answer I was looking for." in that GitHub thread? They also seem to be spilling into HN [1]. Runaway AI agents? A meme I'm to old to understand? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508315

ramimac 38 days ago [–]

It's a spam flood by the attacker to complicate information sharing[1]. They did the same thing in the Trivy discussion, with many of the same accounts.[2]

[1] https://ramimac.me/teampcp/#spam-flood-litellm [2] https://ramimac.me/teampcp/#discussion-flooded

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