alt Hacker NewsThe purpose of this is to address a practice common in certain open source ideologies of banning all AI contributions - including vulnerability reports. Basically they are choosing to ignore security vulnerabilities because they had to read too much slop last year.
> Basically they are choosing to ignore security vulnerabilities because they had to read too much slop last year.
That's not only an uncharitable take, it's also wrong.
If 999 out of every 1000 "reports" from a specific source is wrong, then it is not irrational to disregard all 1000, especially when they can be generated faster than you can read.
I mean, it's just probabilities, right? If you're okay trusting output from an LLM, you should be okay with using statistics in general as a source for informing decision-making.