The link I posted is to the Curl maintainer’s own blog, in which he wrote a follow-up to his earlier post about shutting down their bug bounty program. See also this more recent blog post by the maintainer of Curl, in which he writes that

I personally don’t refer to [vulnerability reports created with the help of AIs] as AI slop because the reports are typically accurate and correct, even if much too wordy. I think “slop” implies that it is wrong, misleading or otherwise bad content.

According to the lead Curl developer, the quality of LLM generated reports has gone up quite a lot, to the point where the number of high quality reports is the problem, rather than the number of slop reports: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/04/22/high-quality-chaos/

However, I doubt that their bug bounty program is ever coming back. As you say, that’ll just attract the people looking for a quick buck, and those are unlikely to care about the quality of their reports

Bond is not such a bad example, because he introduces himself as “Bond. James Bond”, not as “Bond. Bond James”. If he did introduce himself as such, then you’d be forgiven for thinking that his given name was “Bond”.

The problem is also not the short form of author names, which as you point out places the family name first, and which typically abbreviate the given names. The problem is that many sites will reverse that order when they render the full names. The solution is simply to allow the authors to specify how their full name should be rendered. This not a problem that is unique to scientific journals.

The full article is available here: https://archive.ph/1NGkF

See also https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/

But if you actually described this methodology in your PR, then it’d no doubt be closed immediately, based on the spirit of the rules rather than the exact letter of the rules.

Rules like these ultimately presuppose that the contributor is acting in good faith. Because otherwise the contributor could just lie about using an LLM. They don’t need to engage in rules-lawyering or jump through hoops to circumvent the rules

You are not going to accomplish that using a random selection of textbooks. It doesn’t even look like there are that many textbooks in these piles. Realistically, you’d probably have better luck asking students taking intro-level courses to donate their old text books, or just pirating the textbooks you need

I’m guessing that the big books are old collections of scientific journals. Depending on the journal, you could have multiple of those tomes per year. These days scientists access journals digitally, so there’s little benefit to keeping the physical copies around in most cases

To add to that, in most cases you can’t just move to some country and start looking for a job, even if you have money for the expenses:

You typically need to have a job offer before you can get permission to stay long term. Without that, the most you’ll be able to get is probably a short-term tourist visa, which typically does not allow you to work in the country. And most places aren’t going to hire somebody who isn’t legally allowed to work for them. And if you do find somebody who would employ you (legally), while in the country on a tourist visa, then you’d likely have to leave the country to apply for a work visa.

The kind of job that is eligible for a work visa (and residency) also depends on the “prove you wont be a state burden” rules like the ones you mention, which typically means that you have to have the right qualifications. Most people don’t. And you need to stay employed long-term, as you will likely be kicked out of the country if you lose your job and can’t find something equivalent within a short period of time.

There are of course exceptions to all this, but those are just that: exceptions