Were those pictures with links generated using a publicly available tool that we could use, or were it custom (vibe)coded specifically to create this page?
[0]: Be they human or LLM. Or an entity with any proportion of the two. I do not judge nor discriminate.
However, if someone already developed a strong AI-slop-tingle it will still be triggered by some telltale signs and let their subconsciousness know that they can't possible enjoy this.
A great example is Jedi Academy, a 2003 Quake 3 engine game whose multiplayer is still actively played today (its open-source engine port, openjk, is even in the Debian repos btw). Luigi had two classic scripts for it on his site: Jedi Academy <= 1.011 in-game server buffer-overflow (jamsgbof)¹, which crashed the server just by pushing a string of as past the 1024-byte console buffer, and Quake 3 engine in-game players kicking (q3msgboom)², where a wall of as hit the engine's 1022-char truncation limit and the leftover bytes confused the parser into disconnecting everyone on the server.
Kind of wild that 20 years later, the exact same payload goes from crashing Quake 3 matches from the tilde console to getting root on some SSH servers.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20101227181948/http://aluigi.alt... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20060522175643/http://aluigi.alt...
> root@OpenWrt:~# cat /etc/openwrt_release | grep DISTRIB_RELEASE
> DISTRIB_RELEASE='25.12.6'
> root@OpenWrt:~# which ssh
> /usr/bin/ssh
> root@OpenWrt:~# ssh -V
> Dropbear v2025.89
> root@OpenWrt:~# ldd /usr/bin/ssh
> /lib/ld-musl-aarch64.so.1 (0x7f8e120000)
> libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x7f8e0b8000)
> libc.so => /lib/ld-musl-aarch64.so.1 (0x7f8e120000)
> root@OpenWrt:~# which dropbear
> /usr/sbin/dropbear
> root@OpenWrt:~# dropbear -V
> Dropbear v2025.89
> root@OpenWrt:~# ldd /usr/sbin/dropbear
> /lib/ld-musl-aarch64.so.1 (0x7fbb900000)
> libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x7fbb898000)
> libc.so => /lib/ld-musl-aarch64.so.1 (0x7fbb900000)
> root@OpenWrt:~# apk search openssh
> openssh-client-10.6_p1-r2
> openssh-client-utils-10.6_p1-r2
> openssh-keygen-10.6_p1-r2
> openssh-moduli-10.6_p1-r2
> openssh-server-10.6_p1-r2
> openssh-server-pam-10.6_p1-r2
> openssh-sftp-avahi-service-10.6_p1-r2
> openssh-sftp-client-10.6_p1-r2
> openssh-sftp-server-10.6_p1-r2
> openssh-sk-helper-10.6_p1-r2This is just negligent. Not a fan of rewrite in rust, but I find it highly unlikely this would happen in that community.
And like who even needed to plant back doors? If you're the NSA you already had an agent swarm in 1993, but it was made out of dudes from Berkeley and New Haven instead of racks in Prince William County and 印西 (and they were literal secret agents I guess, pretty metal). You can get back doors just by foraging, no need for agriculture.
This isn't even just the software industry, humans are like this about everything. Imagine explaining to something rational that (a) humans didn't realise that they won't be able to competently operate a motor vehicle while watching TokTok dances, and (b) when we finally made that illegal because it's such an obviously bad idea they would keep doing it anyway.
This is why those "What if it builds SkyNet?" conspiracies were so stupid. Why on Earth would you build SkyNet when you can just invent Weeaboo and the idiot humans will die playing ?
There was even a contest for hiding/obfuscating malicious code, e.g. as an honest mistake: https://www.underhanded-c.org/ . And what do you know, the most recent, common approach shown on the page, is: improper comparison inputs that give unexpected comparison results, which is... well... this submission.
If I had a free afternoon, I'd ask a bunch of agents to track the people responsible and their other contributions (but usually the scheme is "contribute valuable patches to build reputation, and only inject an exploit when safe to do so").
If you think about it that’s the whole idea of neural nets
We aren’t smart enough to design the function we want by hand as programmers so we need to learn it through weights
This lesson just keeps recurring in many different ways