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> The word "just" here always presumes magic that does not actually exist.

The magic here is, yes, AI. If you look at the mobile app stores, they've all become much better, although false positives occur, of course.



Those App Stores also spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year on human staff. PyPI doesn't get to do that!


Sure, but I'd guess PyPI could cut off much of the really bad stuff, such as malware, by AI (as everything is know called). Having a waiting list for false positives would not hurt anyone much. Yet, a foreseeable alternative is that PyPI and friends continue to be dumpyards, but communities will build up whitelists.


See my comment here for why I don't think that would work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43665581

There are a small number of PyPI things they require human support queues at the moment and they are sometimes overwhelmed already.




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