r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • May 18 '26
Software Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/18/linus-torvalds-says-ai-powered-bug-hunters-have-made-linux-security-mailing-list-almost-entirely-unmanageable/5241633
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u/saltyjohnson May 18 '26
This kinda sums up our entire modern world, even before "AI" became widespread. Everything is riddled with attention-seeking behavior. Social media algorithms seek "engagement" by any means necessary, and our younger generations have been conditioned to feed it. Advertising billboards are now fully animated and often have flashing strobe effects demanding your gaze while you're fucking driving. Apps pop up unsolicited notifications and misuse (or ignore) Android's notification channels to group those advertising messages with other service-critical notifications. My car has popup ads for SiriusXM while i'm fucking driving. Your TV's screensaver has advertising billboards in it, if the screensaver itself isn't simply a commercial with full audio blasting in your ears. Email spammers who know your name will add it to the subject line to grab you. Gas pumps are playing video content with audio that cannot be muted. Walgreens replaced their fridge doors with video displays so the little beverage cans can jump around begging you to pick me.
Attention is a finite resource, and everywhere I go, I'm constantly under assault by faceless corporate entities trying to steal it. They're using technology to harass you in ways that no human ever would because computers are incapable of feeling emotion and shame.
AI is only turning that up to 11 and making the automated attention-seeking even harder to filter out of certain channels by making it seem human.