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   Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 07:01:56 JST Greg K-H
   Looks like the AI companies have finally run out of money as they are asking various open source projects to test their closed source products for them for free. What could go wrong with giving access to an unknown tool to private code repos?
   
   If I didn't know better, I would think this is an elaborate phishing scam, or they have run out of data to scrape and need more training material.
   
   Gotta admire their brazenness...
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     daniel:// stenberg:// (bagder@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 07:01:53 JST daniel:// stenberg://

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     • GunChleoc

     @gregkh @gunchleoc we don't have closed source. They already train on all our code...

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     GunChleoc (gunchleoc@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 07:01:55 JST GunChleoc

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     @gregkh I'm sure that @bagder can't wait to sign up for this great opportunity!

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     Adam Beer (adambyte@dragonscave.space)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 07:02:31 JST Adam Beer

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     @gregkh

     👉 "a handpicked group of non-commercial Open Source maintainers"

     👉 looks inside

     👉 "What is your company's full, legal name?"

     Great job, guys. 🤦

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     Greg K-H (gregkh@social.kernel.org)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 07:02:32 JST Greg K-H

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     Curiosity got the best of me, and I clicked on the links and this just looks like an OpenAI "sales funnel", which is pretty hilarious when you consider the target was open source security teams, none of which could ever fill out these types of forms without flat out lying.