In other words, "It has way more bugs than we thought."
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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Not everything an "AI bug hunter" finds is actually a bug.
They should make a separate mailing list specifically for people who use AI, to concatenate their results and boil it down to something manageable for a human to review.
It's like having a porch light a few feet away from the door to attract all the moths so they don't come inside whenever you open the door.
Why do you think the kind of obnoxious cunt who uses an LLM to spam a Linux mailing list would voluntarily use another? AI-bros, as a rule, do not respect others.
They should make a separate mailing list specifically for people who use AI, to concatenate their results and boil it down to something manageable for a human to review.
I get it - like an AI summary!
Maybe they could use an LLM to make a summary of the results!
Ideally, If the AI was truly any good at finding the bugs, a well trained AI could give it the ole wheat and chaff action.
we're not there yet.
More like use a deterministic program to concatenate all the deltas, merge redundant ones, and present any conflicts to a human to rectify. Then a human can give it a final review before finalizing anything.
they should make another mailing list for ai generated reports that they totally read, and ban anyone who submits slop to the main one. not sure how feasible it is since spammers will just generate new emails, but at least they would have something clear to point out the malicious intent.
The problem isn't that AI is maliciously spamming the mailing list, it's that AI is able to find and report real or potential security vulnerabilities at rates that no human organization can process fast enough. Open source browsers and Linux have been slammed lately with vulnerabilities found by Mythos.
Aah.. that is indeed a problem since the threats have to be dealt with fast once they are reported since they are now basically public..
It would likely create more work and just result in two unmanageable mailing lists. Doubling the problem.
Sounds like the perfect solution!
the point being the mail list for ai slop is there just so it doesnt clog the actual one and anyone who breaks that can be blacklisted as malicious actor.
We truly are witnessing the death of open source in real time. Thanks AI!
Let's not being over-drammic here. They just need a better way to filter off AI junk request. They should be the one to do it? No, it suck. Is it fair? Not at all. Still this is what things are now.
Btw. People using Linux should remember that just because " it's free" doesn't mean it don't cost money and resources to keep going. So:
DO YOUR PART AND DONATE TO YOUR DISTRO DEVELOPERS.
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/donate
I read that Linux Foundation spend only 3% on the Linux kernel. Where the rest go? Well one of their biggest spending is AI.
The reports don't have to be irrelevant slop to be overwhelming.
indeed! The open source community should adopt LLM powered mailing list filters. Basically new age version of "protection money" as you pay AI firms to stop other AI firms from drowning your organization.
Joking aside, the dead Internet theory is unfortunately looking pretty accurate.
LLM powered mailing list filters.
Deep Seek and other locally hosted options should be up to this task...
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This ai shit is fucking everything up for everyone.
I hate it with a passion.
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I'm just imagining a bunch of sweaties telling people they work for Linux as a cybersec expert, burning through $300 of tokens a day.
For which they haven't yet paid a single penny, because AI corpos need people to get addicted to their products.
Why does everyone always use the old photos of chubby Linus?
He looks so friendly and approachable in that picture
kinda like an anglerfish in that you are lured into a false sense of security which makes the straight to the jugular scathing responses even more effective.
Naaahhh, he's not like that... I never met him but he can't be like that; I mean look at him.
Because they have to nerf him somehow, can't just have worlds sexiest kernel developer getting everyone soaking wet all the time.
He's getting older. Maybe they just want a younger shot.
Middle of last year:
Damn, I had no clue he looks like that now. He could be a captain on Starship Enterprise.
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