cURL’s Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source

cURL’s Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source

At FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels, Belgium, Daniel Stenberg, creator of the popular open source data transfer program, cURL, described AI as a force that “augments us humans” in two directions: “The bad way or the good way.” On the one hand, AI enables a flood of bogus, AI‑written security reports that burn out maintainers. On the other hand, advanced AI analyzers in the right hands are quietly uncovering deep bugs in cURL and other critical open sourc…