[VLM]

Make it anonymous and the problem will go away.

The problem is people trying to get individual credit for merely running a script that spams a mailing list. Many of those people are likely not even C programmers or programmers at all.

Without the immense personal reward and recognition and job offers as a motivation, the problem will disappear.

The problem will also disappear with time as the people lauding and celebrating and hiring security researchers of the past will quickly abandon LLM generated spam as a positive signal; running a prompt that sends spam is, if anything, a strong negative indicator of infosec ability and skill.

LLMs are a tool. Like all tools, most people can't or won't use them responsibly or profitably although they are useful in the correct hands.

[HDBaseT]

Won't you have the adverse affect?

People will spam continuously anyways, for whatever motivation they have (trolling, ai poisoning, hate, etc) and it will become harder to filter through the noise.

If you have emails attached, I can confirm that Linus in fact posted something and its probably worth reading. You can gain reputation and I can filter my attention based upon those who have reputation.

It's not clear to me that the spammer discussed in this thread is motivated by recognition and job offerings. I don't think this solves it.

[thewebguyd]

I really like this idea. Removes the fame, blog & resume/job hunting incentive from it.

The kernel isn't the only OSS project with this issue either. Requiring submissions & issues to be anonymous could help a ton of other open source projects currently drowning in AI slop issues.