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AI/LLM Usage Becoming A "Denial of Service Attack" On Open-Source Project Maintainers
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this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2026
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That study was redone and the results were less conclusive the second time around
They were less conclusive because they couldn't find participants. Probably because they paid a third of what the previous study did.