2025-05-05 AI is sapping our strength
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Bug reports by AI are a denial of service attacks. Here's curl staff
and curl maintainer fending of the slop:

> icing: This report and your other one seem like an attack on our
> resources to handle security issues. Either make precise arguments
> without involving AI slop or just stop.
>
> badger: There is no function named like this in current ngtcp2 or
> nghttp3. Please clarify what you talk about. Which versions of
> ngtcp2 and nghttp3 did you find the problem in?
> I call this AI slop"

We can see the same thing happening in other areas. Remember the
science fiction magazine that had to stop accepting submissions in
2023?

> The science fiction and fantasy magazine Clarkesworld has been
> forced to stop accepting any new submissions from writers after it
> was bombarded with what it says were AI-generated stories. -- A
> sci-fi magazine has cut off submissions after a flood of
> AI-generated stories, by Vincent Acovino, Mary Louise Kelly,
> Halimah Abdullah, for NPR

If this happened in 2023, how bad is it in 2025?

Ah, the Python foundation looking at applications for Summer of Code:

> Python got over 500 Google Summer of Code applications this year and
> so many of them are absolutely trash, didn’t follow any of the
> instructions. Most years about half of our applications are like
> this. But usually we have a lot fewer applicants and the submissions
> were blank files not plausible AI nonsense. -- Apr 09, 2025, by
> @terri@social.afront.org

And that's just the "regular" stuff. I'm not even talking about AI and
psychosis.

> The replies to her story were full of similar anecdotes about loved
> ones suddenly falling down rabbit holes of spiritual mania,
> supernatural delusion, and arcane prophecy — all of it fueled by AI.
> Some came to believe they had been chosen for a sacred mission of
> revelation, others that they had conjured true sentience from the
> software. -- People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual
> Fantasies, by Miles Klee, for Rolling Stone

#AI

Elsewhere @phf@tabletop.social commented:

> It's extremely depressing that 90+% of people choose to ignore all
> things problematic about "generative AI" with a shrug and maybe a
> vague "hope" that "things will get better" which of course they
> won't. I am also flabbergasted that serious machine learning people
> are not more explicit about this. They would be the ones who could
> carefully delineate useful stuff like pattern recognition in medical
> imaging from the "genAI" bullshit. But I guess they would risk their
> own funding if they had a more nuanced opinion in public since it's
> all being lumped together under "AI" by the techbros and their
> fanbois. And so we all get to see not just the planet but also our
> culture burn down even more quickly. 🤷

Indeed.

In the future, everybody will have been against it. 😒

I found a blog post via Linkbudz posted by @acdw@tilde.zone that
shows how people misrepresent the concerns people have and
misunderstand the meaning of consent.

> I was recently made aware of the Jetbrains developer ecosystem
> survey, which included a lot of questions about AI. … What I found
> most interesting is that the multiple choice options included a lot
> of “I found the Terminator movies scary”, “I read too much Ray
> Kurzweil”, and/or “I am or was a SF Bay Area rationalist”
> undertones, but actual ethical objections were strangely absent. --
> Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI, by
> Soatok