The New Stack Feb 16
cURL’s Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source:
For open source software, AI is very much a mixed blessing in his view.
thenewstack.io/curls-daniel-stenberg-ai-is-ddosing-open-source-and-fixing-its-bugs/
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field that develops and studies software enabling machines to exhibit intelligent behavior
software bug that can be exploited to gain unauthorized access or privileges on a computer system
method to represent information for various purposes (storage, transmission, protection against unauthorized access etc.)
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