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AI slop attacks on the curl project - Daniel Stenberg

AI slop attacks on the curl project - Daniel Stenberg

Daniel Stenberg
1 HN recommenders · discussed 2025–2026
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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.

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a235 · 2025-09 · rec

Maintainer or curl gave recently a talk on AI slop in security reports, showing this and other examples: [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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shoo · 2025-09 · reference

last month curl developer Daniel Stenberg gave a talk "AI slop attacks on the curl project" : [VIDEO]

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jonchurch_ · 2025-11 · reference

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” [VIDEO]

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jraph · 2026-01 · reference

> 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] [VIDEO] (via [LINK] )

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latexr · 2026-01 · reference

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. [VIDEO]

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