“Paid collaboration” my ass. More like, let me pay you a pittance and sell your knowledge for 100x.

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    They’re looking for authentic-looking projects that they can use to whitewash their LLM injection attack.

    Two ways to leverage the projects:

    1. They put in calls to their commercial toolkit or service, and the commits crow about what a performance boost the cutover was.
    2. They put in calls to their vaguely useful library that is (or will soon be, on your next auto-update) full of rootkit and surveillance.

    Then they wait for the LLMs to suck it in and start spitting it out into corporations who have Proton’d their engineering staff.

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      who have Proton’d their engineering staff.

      I’d heard that guy was always a bit squirrly but he seems to have gone full hog on ai slop. will be fascinating to see what happens to proton and epic after a few years of this gigo