{"id":677302,"date":"2026-05-18T10:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/677302\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:52:07","slug":"ai-bug-spam-chokes-linux-security-list-torvalds-snarls-fudzilla-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/677302\/","title":{"rendered":"AI bug spam chokes Linux security list Torvalds snarls \u2013 Fudzilla.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

IT\u2019s Mr Sweary Linus Torvalds has told<\/a> AI bug-report tourists to stop clogging the Linux security list with duplicated machine-generated rubbish.<\/p>\n

Torvalds announced another Linux release candidate on the kernel mailing list today. But the livelier bit was his swipe at \u201cdocumentation updates\u201d aimed at a fresh nuisance: AI-generated security reports arriving by the skip-load.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable, with enormous duplication due to different people finding the same things with the same tools.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new documentation says the security team has found \u201cbugs discovered this way systematically surface simultaneously across multiple researchers, often on the same day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Torvalds said: \u201cPeople spend all their time just forwarding things to the right people or saying \u2018that was already fixed a week\/month ago\u2019 and pointing to the public discussion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich is all entirely pointless churn, and we\u2019re making it clear that AI-detected bugs are pretty much by definition not secret, and treating them on some private list is a waste of time for everybody involved \u2014 and only makes that duplication worse because the reporters can\u2019t even see each other\u2019s reports,\u201d He said.<\/p>\n

Torvalds added: \u201cAI tools are great, but only if they actually help, rather than cause unnecessary pain and pointless make-believe work. Feel free to use them, but use them in a way that is productive and makes for a better experience. The documentation may be a bit less blunt than I am, but that\u2019s the core gist of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new documentation says: \u201cIt turns out that the majority of the bugs reported via the security team are just regular bugs that have been improperly qualified as security bugs due to a lack of awareness of the Linux kernel\u2019s threat model.\u201d<\/p>\n

Torvalds said at the end of his post: \u201cIf you found a bug using AI tools, the chances are somebody else found it too.
\u201cIf you actually want to add value, read the documentation, create a patch too, and add some real value on top of what the AI did. Don\u2019t be the drive-by \u2018send a random report with no real understanding\u2019 kind of person. Ok?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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