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Linux Besieged by LLM Plagiarism Engines That Clog Up the Development Pipeline, LWN Increases Fees After Persistent Problems With LLM Scrapers
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Linux kernel nears record 2,000 vulnerabilities per release as Hey Hi (AI) bug hunters scour 40 million lines of code — maintainers say they are 'completely overwhelmed' by CVE finds [Ed: Nobody has time to check if these are false positives, the priority etc. (this is, in effect, DDoS on human processes); Lots of BS in the news about "HEY HI" in cyber attacks and cyber "defences", little about how the LLM scrapers are themselves attacking sites, just by means of brute force nihilism. iophk: it can't be the fault of Microsoft or Microsoft way of thinking it has to be that new LLM stuff. That lie does double duty. It hypes the LLM bubble further and it distracts from the microsoftianism destroying the world's infrastructure through a massive army of moles and trolls.]
AI-assisted bug hunting is driving Linux toward 2,000 CVEs per release, surfacing real flaws and mountains of low-priority work for overwhelmed maintainers.
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LWN ☛ A note from LWN [Ed: Meanwhile LWN and kernel.org drown in considerable extra costs due to LLM scrapers that virtually attack them 24/7]
The online publication industry, as a whole, is struggling, with challenges
coming from multiple directions. Thanks to the support of all of you, our
readers, LWN would appear to be doing better than most. But the world has
changed around us and, in particular, prices have changed considerably. By
now, you probably know where this is going: subscription prices at LWN will
be increasing as of September 15.