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Google halts open-source bug bounty program amid AI spam surge

Google has paused its open-source bug bounty program, which paid researchers for reporting vulnerabilities in projects like Bazel, Angular, Golang, and Protocol Buffers. The company said it was overwhelmed by a flood of low-quality, AI-generated submissions from bounty hunters, making the program difficult to sustain. The move has sparked debate among security researchers about the impact of automated AI spam on vulnerability disclosure programs.

Why now: Google's suspension of a long-running security reward program due to AI-generated spam highlights the wider disruption AI tools are causing to security research

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