negative attention is still attention..."no such thing as bad publicity"- PT Barnum.

Those complaining about slop are not the majority of users, and this is different from the "Claude think pieces" that most users take particular issue with.

The discussion is moreso about the vulnerability (and PoC) itself rather than the AI-generated aspects.

The people upvoting the slop may not be the same people complaining about slop. With no downvoting, a subset of the population that doesnt' like a topic doesn't necessarily bury it.

Additionally, even those that dislike slop may still upvote a security issue that they think is important.

I’m not going to sit there ensuring css aligns right so ofcourse I automated that, the content is all accurate, it was reworded by LLM, bug is real.

Which AI wrote the app?

YC backs slop security startups (though this is not from one of them), and they've been having trouble getting people to take their slop writeups seriously. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294391