FOSSY 2025 Wrap-Up: Kaylea Champion “Plausible Slop: Generative AI and Open Source Cybersecurity”

For our final talk of the Science of Community track at FOSSY 2025, Kaylea Champion explored how generative AI tools are disrupting open source cybersecurity—not through advanced attacks, but by flooding communities with “plausible slop,” or misleading, low-effort reports. She shared research on the burden this places on experts, who must balance welcoming newcomers with filtering out noise. Drawing on historical parallels and case studies, she proposed strategies to address these challenges and invited community input to shape future solutions.

This is the final of our 11 part series sharing highlights from the Science of Community track at FOSSY 2025. Visit the FOSSY site for bio details and a full abstract.