Lecture: AI slop attacks on the curl project
August 16, 2025
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HS 1/2
Language:
en
When the autopilot fails - Risks and side effects of AI
Summary
In these days of "vibe coding" and chatbots, users ask AIs for help with everything. Asked to find security problems in Open Source projects, AI bots tell users something that sounds right. Reporting these "findings" wastes everyone's time and causes much frustration and fatigue. Daniel shows how this looks, how it creates a DDoS on projects and how totally beyond absurd this is. With examples and insights from the curl project.
Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish Internet protocol expert and developer who has participated in and...