Sheesh I had no idea it was this bad
Yeah, the powers that br are happy to sacrifice all FOSS for the greater good of the slop machine:
https://www.osnews.com/story/141969/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/
Beyond infrastructure, AI slop is also becoming exhausting for maintainers and security folks:
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/26/the-curl-project-drops-bug-bounties-due-to-ai-slop/
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/185387
It has been increasingly fun to be an unpaid FOSS person out there 🤣. In a way, Nostr’s niche status and AI companies not coming so hard for data behind websockets (yet) help keep Nostr reasonably protected, aside from its own internal script kiddies, of course.
https://www.osnews.com/story/141969/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/
Beyond infrastructure, AI slop is also becoming exhausting for maintainers and security folks:
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/26/the-curl-project-drops-bug-bounties-due-to-ai-slop/
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/185387
It has been increasingly fun to be an unpaid FOSS person out there 🤣. In a way, Nostr’s niche status and AI companies not coming so hard for data behind websockets (yet) help keep Nostr reasonably protected, aside from its own internal script kiddies, of course.
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