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Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health" (arstechnica.com)
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The project developer for one of the Internet’s most popular networking tools is scrapping its vulnerability reward program after being overrun by a spike in the submission of low-quality reports, much of it AI-generated slop.

“We are just a small single open source project with a small number of active maintainers,” Daniel Stenberg, the founder and lead developer of the open source app cURL, said Thursday. “It is not in our power to change how all these people and their slop machines work. We need to make moves to ensure our survival and intact mental health.”

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 1 month ago

Curl is the project is talking about. Almost every piece of software getting data from the web is using curl.