Linus Torvalds has publicly complained that AI-powered bug hunting tools are overwhelming the Linux kernel security mailing list. Multiple researchers using the same AI tools are independently discovering and reporting the same bugs, creating a flood of duplicate reports that Torvalds describes as making the list 'almost entirely unmanageable.' The situation highlights a growing problem where AI-assisted vulnerability discovery scales faster than human review capacity can handle.

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