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[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Well looks like GNOME is in danger of being significantly sloppified next.

Projects that continue to prohibit AI-generated vulnerability reports are no longer suitable dependencies for GNOME, and should be developed someplace other than GNOME GitLab.

Former security guy of GNOME basically demanding that everybody who bans LLM security reports should be removed from GNOME.

[–] ebu@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have you heard that most AI bug reports are “slop?” Not so in 2026. That was true for most of 2025

oh yeah year-1 was actually awful and terrible. but year+1 will be fantastic and everyone not using it is a moron

[–] scruiser@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If it had been only a year they've been saying that, I might almost buy the logic. But it has been 4 years since Chat-GPT came out and they've been making the same promises the entire time.

Something of a tangent... thinking back to 2022-2023 my expectations for what the LLM companies would actually achieve by now were actually too high? Like I would have thought they would have figured out a better architecture for gluing functionality and symbolic logic to LLMs than just calling tools with the output text stream and feeding the tool outputs into the context window.

[–] EFreethought@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

If it had been only a year they’ve been saying that, I might almost buy the logic. But it has been 4 years since Chat-GPT came out and they’ve been making the same promises the entire time.

4 years and more money has been spent on AI than anything else in human history outside of war.

[–] flaviat@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Projects that continue to prohibit AI-generated vulnerability reports are no longer suitable dependencies for GNOME

How. That ~~is~~ (E: was) the policy of curl and they are AI centrists.

[–] rhamph@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

After all of curl’s noise about their deluge of slop reports and halting bounties because of it, I was surprised to see they would be so amenable to slopping curl itself. I suppose it’s yet another case of “all those other AI users are doing it wrong; because I understand the codebase and definitely totally use the bullshit machine responsibly then for sure I won’t produce slop”

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

the fomo is very strong in this one, but also it lacks substance entirely