Open-source maintainers will be overwhelmed by AI-discovered software vulnerabilities

Open-source maintainers will be overwhelmed by AI-discovered software vulnerabilities | It's more often than not some poor, starving open-source project maintainer that's suddenly getting flooded with reports of vulnerabilities in their software project.

It's more often than not some poor, starving open-source project maintainer that's suddenly getting flooded with reports of vulnerabilities in their software project.

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  "context": "There's a national vulnerability database that's maintained in part by NIST where it's there's a standardized system, a standardized nomenclature for enumerating vulnerabilities that are discovered in software products. And they are getting this is public reporting, public information. They're getting overwhelmed by AI discoveries of software vulnerabilities.",
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