Is there something about cUrl that attracts these AI bots, or is it just better documented by them - because I was going to say that this is old, but then I checked the date and realized that this is a new problem. Going down the rabbit-hole, @badger has made multiple posts [0][1] about AI slop.
[0] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s... [1] https://gist.github.com/bagder/07f7581f6e3d78ef37dfbfc81fd1d...
My theory is that the cURL maintainer is independent and can respond forcefully to the "AI" nonsense.
Many other projects always have some corporate maintainers who are directed to push "AI" and will try to cover it up.
Curl is one of the most widely used/deployed libraries on the planet.