--- title: cURL’s Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source description: Daniel Stenberg, creator of cURL, discusses how AI is both helping and harming open source projects. AI-generated security reports have flooded cURL's bug... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/curl-s-daniel-stenberg-ai-slop-is-ddosing-open-source-7e4x0vont twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: cURL’s Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source | daily.dev og:description: Daniel Stenberg, creator of cURL, discusses how AI is both helping and harming open source projects. 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However, AI-powered analysis tools have also discovered over 100 legitimate bugs that traditional methods missed. Stenberg warns that while AI analyzers can find deep issues across protocols and specs, AI-generated code contributions remain unreliable. He urges the open source community to balance AI's benefits against the burden of spam reports and exploitation by large companies that find bugs but don't contribute fixes or funding. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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