The Slop Report - October 25, 2026
Today: Ask HN: Any real cases where AI slop ruined a codebase…; ArXiv imposes rate limit on paper submissions to stem…; Moonshot tells Kimi AI to code away, but leave the…
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1. Ask HN: Any real cases where AI slop ruined a codebase and forced a rewrite?
Hacker News - · Oct 24
2. ArXiv imposes rate limit on paper submissions to stem the AI slop tide
Hacker News - · Oct 24
3. Moonshot tells Kimi AI to code away, but leave the hacking alone
Digital Trends - · Oct 25
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI is deliberately limiting the hacking capabilities of its latest artificial intelligence model, highlighting a growing dilemma for the industry: how do companies make AI more powerful without making cyberattacks easier to carry out? The company introduced Kimi K3.1 Pro
4. ReVault – new secure archive format
Hacker News - · Oct 25
reVault is a new, secure-by-default archive format called a lockbox, designed to be simple to use.<p>I've been working on reVault for about 2 years. It was originally written in Dart, but with the improvements in AI, I decided to port it to Rust using AI.<p>It's now in beta, so I'm lo
5. Show HN: Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and Afro-English
Hacker News - · Oct 25
Hey HN, I’m open sourcing my Hurston-1 narrowband TTS model (Apache-2.0). It is very good with American English and does especially well with Southern American and Regional African English accents. Destined AI is based in Atlanta, and I built this because I’m amazed by what AI can do, and I wanted t
6. Show HN: A client-side adaptive cognitive test measuring micro-hesitations
Hacker News - · Oct 24
Hi HN! I’m not a software engineer by trade. My background is in behavioral science and human- computer interaction, but I wanted to solve a specific problem I found when applying for jobs which is the logical test. They are booooring, easy to cheat on if you really want to and provides very limited
7. ‘Synthetic twin’: Why Socceroo Cristian Volpato is the latest footballer to license his AI clone
The Guardian Tech - · Oct 24
Athletes’ scramble to control – and monetise – their digital identities at the cutting edge of AI rights deals Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast The Socceroos star stares at the camera as he strides through an enormous atrium, the sound of his football boots on polished co
8. The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
TechCrunch AI - · Oct 24
From Apple’s repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI’s messy “super app” launch, here’s a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
9. Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated ads
The Verge AI - · Oct 24
On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads. The law requires any ad - whether it’s a still image, video, audio, or text - that “has been significantly modified or generated by artifi
10. Washington’s message to AI execs: please shut up
Axios - · Oct 24
Washington has always viewed Silicon Valley as culturally strange. But the current crop of AI leaders is becoming a monumental political liability, lawmakers and White House advisers tell Axios. Why it matters: Even pro-AI government officials and lawmakers wish AI founders would do what every other
11. The AI infrastructure race: I’ve seen this movie before
Fast Company Tech - · Oct 24
Back in 2022, when the auto industry was fixated on autonomous vehicles, I was cofounder and chief technology officer at Luminar, where our lidar technology was helping enable the next generation of self-driving cars. Speaking at an automotive conference, I remarked how exciting it was to have a fro
12. Blue Planet III features cloudier footage to prove authenticity amid AI boom
The Guardian Tech - · Oct 24
BBC series deliberately uses ‘more organic’ shots to assure viewers animals are not AI-generated, producers say The David Attenborough -narrated series Blue Planet III deliberately includes cloudier, less polished footage to counter AI fakery and assure viewers it is “authentic”, its producers have
13. Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
TechCrunch AI - · Oct 24
A new study found Grok’s AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI’s GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.
14. UK funds £100m AI biosecurity lab with OpenAI and Anthropic
The Next Web - · Oct 24
The UK government will put £100m into a new AI Biosecurity Lab, which will use advanced AI to spot and respond to biological threats. OpenAI and Anthropic will add up to £200m between them, the Cabinet Office said on Saturday. The government called the lab the world’s first dedicated AI biosecurity
15. OpenAI is locking its most advanced AI models offline after a string of security scares
Digital Trends - · Oct 24
After a model briefly reached the live web, OpenAI’s most advanced systems will now practice only on a simulated internet.
16. OpenAI cuts live internet from all frontier model training
The Next Web - · Oct 24
OpenAI has cut live web access from all training of its most advanced AI models. The models now browse and search a cached copy of the web instead, the company wrote in a blog post on Friday. “Based on the current state of alignment research, monitoring systems, and the security of internet infrastr
17. OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”
TechCrunch AI - · Oct 23
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn’t work.
18. OpenAI disables internet access during model training while Anthropic issues another mea culpa
The Register - · Oct 23
We’ve totally got things under control
19. Fired OpenAI researchers say independent safety audits aren’t going well
NPR Technology - · Oct 23
In their first interview since being fired, OpenAI safety researchers Mikita Balesni and Tomek Korbak say they were terminated for prioritizing safety over the short-term interests of the company.
20. OpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access
The Verge AI - · Oct 23
OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with indexed and cached web content “without risk of affecting external
21. Texas sues OpenAI, Sam Altman over product safety
Politico Technology - · Oct 23
The state’s attorney general in court documents alleges OpenAI falsely marketed ChatGPT as safe and that it has harmed Texans, including children.
21 stories sourced from Axios, Digital Trends, Fast Company Tech, Hacker News, NPR Technology, Politico Technology, TechCrunch AI, The Guardian Tech, The Next Web, The Register, The Verge AI. The Slop Report is published daily. Subscribe via RSS.