Curl Fights a Flood of AI-Generated Bug Reports From HackerOne
Curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg is combating a flood of "AI slop" by requiring contributors to disclose AI use and meticulously verify findings.
Hasnain says:
I’ve always seen eg those articles on Buzzfeed and elsewhere that are basically of the form “someone posted X on the internet, and others responded Y and Z”
Did not realize there was a tech equivalent and that I’d get quoted for a random LinkedIn comment posted at midnight
… I do wish they had posted the (imo) more interesting parts of my comment though.
“Databricks software engineer Hasnain Lakhani wondered what he’d do when people simply lied about whether they’d used AI. (“Seems like an arms race,” he suggested, with projects needing tools to screen for AI.)”
Posted on 2025-05-21T03:48:09+0000