Months ago, we were getting what we called ‘AI slop,’ AI-generated security reports that were obviously wrong or low quality. It was kind of funny. It didn’t really worry us.

Something happened a month ago, and the world switched. Now we have real reports. All open source projects have real reports that are made with AI, but they’re good, and they’re real.

— Greg Kroah-Hartman (https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/greg_kroahhartman_ai_kernel/), Linux kernel maintainer (bio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Kroah-Hartman)), in conversation with Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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