Linus Torvalds: AI-Generated Bug Reports Have Made Linux Security Mailing List 'Almost Entirely Unmanageable'
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In the Linux 7.1-rc4 release notes, Linus Torvalds declared the private security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' due to multiple researchers independently finding the same bugs with the same AI tools and filing duplicate reports. Torvalds urged researchers to 'create a patch too, and add some real value on top of what the AI did' rather than drive-by reporting, and the project now treats AI-detected bugs as public disclosures rather than routing them through the private security list — 207 points and 102 comments on HN.