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AI ‘slop security reports’ are driving open source maintainers mad

Open source project maintainers are drowning in a sea of AI-generated ‘slop security reports’, according to security report triage worker Seth Larson. Larson said he’s witnessed an increase in poor-quality reports that are wasting maintainers’ time and contributing to burnout. “Recently I’ve noticed an uptick in extremely low-quality, spammy, and LLM-hallucinated security reports to open source projects. The issue is…