Python security developer-in-residence decries use of bots that 'cannot understand code'

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Open source projects drown in bad bug reports penned by AI

They seem friendly and well thought out: But upon closer inspection, open source maintainers are finding that more and more bug reports are AI nonsense.

Sie kommen freundlich und wohl durchdacht daher: Doch bei genauerer Prüfungen stellen Open-Source-Maintainer fest, dass immer mehr Bugreports KI-Unsinn sind.

Bis zum Burn-out: Open-Source-Entwickler von KI-Bug-Reports genervt

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To the point of burnout: Open source developers annoyed by AI bug reports

Just like social media, open source maintainers are facing an avalanche of junk.

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Bogus AI-Generated Bug Reports Are Driving Open Source Developers Nuts

An anonymous reader shares a report: Software vulnerability submissions generated by AI models have ushered in a "new era of slop security reports for open source" -- and the devs maintaining these projects wish bug hunters would rely less on results produced by machine learning assistants. Seth Lar...

slashdot.org

Open Source Maintainers Are Drowning in Junk Bug Reports Written By AI

Generative AI models have already proven powerful tools in the hands of cyber-criminals and fraudsters. However, hucksters can also use them to spam open-source projects with useless bug reports. According to Seth Larson, the number of "extremely" low-quality, spammy, and LLM-hallucinated security reports has recently increased, forcing maintainers to waste...Read Entire Article

Tech Spot

Useless AI generated security reports are frustrating open-source maintainers

An analysis of more than five million open-source software packages published by Lineaje, a provider of a platform for tracking open-source software components, finds 95% of security issues involve some type of open-source software package dependency, with more than half (51%) of the vulnerabilities discovered having no known existing fix available.

DevOps.com

Report Shines Spotlight on Open Source Software Security Challenges

https://gizmodo.com/bogus-ai-generated-bug-reports-are-driving-open-source-developers-nuts-2000536711 
«Platforms like HackerOne offer bounties for successful bug reports, which may encourage some individuals to ask ChatGPT to search a codebase for flaws and then submit erroneous ones the LLM returns.»  Be careful what you measure/reward.

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Python security developer-in-residence decries use of bots that 'cannot understand code' Software vulnerability submissions generated by AI models have ushered in a "new era of slop security reports for open source" – and the devs maintaining these projects wish bug hunters would rely less on results produced by machine learning assistants. . . .

technewstube.com

Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI

AI is causing yet another problem, inundating open source developers with bug report spam that is vague and often unactionable. The latest incident comes courtesy of a Curl bug report. Curl is an important open-source component used for data transfer across networks. A recent, very detailed bug report raised alarming concerns about possible vulnerabilities. 
Both Curl_inet_ntop and inet_ntop4 pose significant buffer overflow risks due to a lack …

Open source projects drown in bad bug reports penned by AI

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