High-Quality Chaos | daniel.haxx.se
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https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/04/22/high-quality-chaos/ via https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116448188069484288 (2026-04-22) – not recent, but it's news to me.
From today's post about last month's Ottawa FreeBSD Developer Summit:
Michael Winser – Alpha Omega – The Changing Landscape of Open Source Software Security
AI has entered the chat
A frame from Winser's presentation:
Daniel Stenberg on AI in security ― sentiment over time
From Stenberg's blog post:
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Everything is AI now
Almost every security report now uses AI to various degrees. You can tell by the way they are worded, how the report is phrased and also by the fact that they now easily get very detailed duplicates in ways that can’t be done had they been written by humans.
The difference now compared to before however, is that they are mostly very high quality.
The reporters rarely mention exactly which AI tool or model they used (and really, we don’t care), but the evidence is strong that they used such help.
We are not unique
I did a quick unscientific poll on Mastodon to see if other Open Source projects see the same trends and man, do they! Friends from the following projects confirmed that they too see this trend. …
Additional tag: AI
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#aiis currently not possible in (NodeBB) BSD Cafe Billboard.
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