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FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

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1124 points CrankyBear | 1 comments | 11 Nov 25 18:32 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ganelonhb ◴[11 Nov 25 19:14 UTC] No.45891485[source]▶
Not too fond of maintainers getting too uppity about this stuff. I get that it can be frustrating to receive bug report after bug report from people who are unwilling or unable to contribute to the code base, or at the very least to donate to the team.

But the way I see it, a bug report is a bug report, no matter how small or big the bug or the team, it should be addressed.

I don’t know, I’m not exactly a pillar of the FOSS community with weight behind my words.

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calcifer ◴[11 Nov 25 19:16 UTC] No.45891536[source]▶
> it can be frustrating to receive bug report after bug report from people

As the article states, these are AI-generated bug reports. So it's a trillion-dollar company throwing AI slop over the wall and demanding a 90-day turn around from unpaid volunteers.

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ikiris ◴[11 Nov 25 19:18 UTC] No.45891559[source]▶
Do you have evidence of ai slop, or are you just spreading fud? The linked bug was acknowledged as real.
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ehutch79 ◴[11 Nov 25 19:23 UTC] No.45891632[source]▶
google literally tells them it's an ai generated report
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ikiris ◴[11 Nov 25 19:24 UTC] No.45891654[source]▶
That is not the definition of slop.
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blibble ◴[11 Nov 25 19:41 UTC] No.45891837[source]▶
if it's unwanted then it is

and the ffmpeg maintainers say it's not wanted

so it's slop

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1. iscoelho ◴[11 Nov 25 20:26 UTC] No.45892384[source]▶
It’s a reproducible use-after-free in a codec that ships by default with most desktop and server distributions. It can be leveraged in an exploit chain to compromise a system.

I'm not a Google fan, but if the maintainers are unable to understand that, I welcome a fork.