SQLite Under DDoS Attack by Slop Reports or Fake 'Bugs' (Just Like cURL and Many Other Projects)
Richard Hipp, the developer of SQLite, has had enough! He is trying to put an end to slop bots pretending to be something they're not. They are a nuisance and they're basically spamming/DDoSing the SQLite team/project. Quoting the SQLite forums: "This forum is intended to support human users of SQLite, not AIs. To that end, there is now a separate forum at https://sqlite.org/bugs/forum that is intended for machine-generated bug reports. "Machine-generated" means bug reports coming from AI agents, fuzzers, static analyzers, or similar. All machine generated bug reports should go into the new forum. Bug reports for problems that come up during actual real-world use of SQLite are still welcomed here. All the (alleged) bugs reported earlier today by Mr. ChiZhang have been deleted from this forum and moved over to the new one."
Mike Swanson said: "Even as someone that observes more than participates, I just want to thank you for this. The AI stuff was really making it unpleasant to even look at the topic list."
Several other projects publicly complain about the same thing (faking numbers or forum activity or productivity with noise and false positives spewed out by bots). As it turns out, slop is becoming spam and it's just sabotaging projects. Even Linus Torvalds is starting to talk about this despite his employer being part of the problem.
The bot-generated noise is distracting from legitimate reports prepared and studied by people with actual comprehension. █
Image source: Richard Hipp at OpenSQLCamp 2008
