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AI slop attacks on the curl project - Daniel Stenberg

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Daniel Stenberg's keynote at FrOSCon 2025 on AI slop attacks on the curl project, with examples of bogus AI-generated security reports. He discusses the toll on maintainers and why various countermeasures don't fit the project.

HN points to it when discussing AI-generated bug reports and vibe-coded pull requests burdening open source maintainers.

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5 comments from Hacker News

@latexr2026 · in “We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports”

A lot of solutions have been suggested over the past few months, including those. They have drawbacks and it’s not how they want to run the project. ▶ this video

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@jraph2026 · in “We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports”

> the problem at hand is one of high asymmetry between the low effort to submit vs the high effort to review Hence the threat to shame publicly I suppose. Actually, Daniel Stenberg previously responded to this proposal the same way as me [1] (and maybe would still do). Coincidentally, I was reading your answer at about the same time as this part of the talk. [1] ▶ this video (via link )

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@jonchurch_2025 · in “Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?”

Daniel Stenberg of curl gave a talk about some of what theyve been experiencing, mostly on the security beg bounty side. A bit hyperbolic, and his opinion is clear from the title, but I think a lot of maintainers feel similarly. “AI Slop attacks on the curl project” ▶ this video

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@shoo2025 · in “You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here”

last month curl developer Daniel Stenberg gave a talk "AI slop attacks on the curl project" : ▶ this video

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@a2352025 · in “You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here”

Maintainer or curl gave recently a talk on AI slop in security reports, showing this and other examples: ▶ this video -- AI slop attacks on the curl project - Daniel Stenberg. Keynote at the FrOSCon 2025 conference, August 16, in Bonn Germany by Daniel Stenberg. Plus, linked above, his blogpost on the same subject link

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