AI slop attacks on the curl project - Daniel Stenberg

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1. @a235Sep 2025· 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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2. @jraphJan 2026· 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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3. @jonchurch_Nov 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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4. @latexrJan 2026· 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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5. @shooSep 2025· 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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