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Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities (arstechnica.com)
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[–] CandleTiger@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

Maybe the people doing this are much more optimistic about how useful LLMs are for this than I am

Yes. That is the problem being reported in this article. There are many many people who have complete and unblemished optimism about how useful LLMs are, to the point where they don’t understand it’s optimism and don’t understand why other people won’t take them seriously.

Some of them are professionals in related fields