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Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI (www.theregister.com)
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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Edit edit: it’s all in the article, darnit. Sorry.

It is? I must have missed it but I can't find any discussion of motivation even on a second read-through.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I meant it’s all about security vulnerability submissions, and although not explicit in the article, those submissions are therefore very likely

  • meant to up the reputation for xz-like attacks
  • meant to annoy/bully the devs
  • denial of service by delaying triage and therefore delaying creating patches
  • submitted by boatloads in the hope of cashing in on bug bounties