Linus Torvalds Says AI Bug Reports Have Made Linux Security Mailing List Unmanageable

Linus Torvalds and kernel maintainers warn that a surge of AI‑generated bug reports is flooding the Linux security mailing list, causing duplicate reports and wasted maintainer time; the project updated documentation to treat most AI‑found issues as public, reserve private channels for urgent exploitable flaws, and require higher-quality, reproducible reports (ideally with tested reproducers or patches).