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Flathub moves to ban nearly all apps and submissions made with generative AI

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨monetaryabyss@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show⁩ to ⁨news@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show⁩

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/flathub-moves-to-ban-nearly-all-apps-and-submissions-made-with-generative-ai/

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s some good news.

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  • minfapper@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe if they took security even remotely seriously and made a functioning sandbox (that apps can’t trivially opt themselves out of), we wouldn’t have to care whether an app was AI generated or not.

    Yes, containers/sandboxes have vulnerabilities that really clever attackers can exploit, but AI generated slop can’t.

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      took security even remotely seriously

      There’s a reason they’re at SLSA1 . And this is it.

      Plot twist: SLSA4 has been achievable since like 1998. Sit DOWN, Debian.

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    • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, containers/sandboxes have vulnerabilities that really clever attackers can exploit, but AI generated slop can’t.

      Wait are you suggesting that AI slop code can’t have vulnerabilities? Cause… that’s hilariously not even remotely true. It’s a huge issue in SecOps, it was even an issue in the past when humans didn’t have a “easy” button and every vibe coder dumped commits. It’s way worse now because a lot of the vibe coded shit isn’t checked, and the people who produce it have no clue what the fuck it does in the first place.

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      • lelgenio@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Wait are you suggesting that AI slop code can’t have vulnerabilities?

        I think they mean “containers can have security vulnerabilities, but you need to be cleaver to exploit them, AI slop is not clever enough to exploit those vulnerabilities”

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    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Speaking broadly: Plenty of other issues or security vulnerabilities can exist that a good sandbox won’t catch. Like software can insecurely store and transmit passwords, have bad randomness for something security sensitive, secretly be mining crypto behind the scenes and burn through battery/electricity, etc.

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