Curl's Frustration with AI-Generated Bug Reports

Daniel Stenberg, the original creator and lead of the widely-used curl project, has had enough. In a recent LinkedIn post, he expressed that the influx of low-quality, AI-generated vulnerability reports is akin to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on their resources. "If we could, we would charge them for this waste of our time," he stated, urging a crackdown on these submissions.

What is Curl?

For those unfamiliar, curl is a 25-year-old command-line tool and library essential for interacting with countless Internet resources. Despite its age, it remains a critical component in web development and security.

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