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Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities (arstechnica.com)
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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago

Consider that it's not intended to be helpful, but actually could be a malicious DDOS attempt. If it slows down devs from fixing real vulnerabilities, then it empowers those holding zero days for a widely used package (like curl).