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Google pauses open-source bug bounty amid AI report flood
Original: Google pauses its open-source bug bounty program after a flood of AI slop reports
Google has paused its open-source bug bounty program after receiving a flood of low-quality, AI-generated vulnerability reports. The influx of automated or copy-paste submissions has overwhelmed reviewers and made the program impractical to run. The move highlights a growing problem for bug bounty platforms as generative AI makes it cheap to mass-produce plausible-looking but useless security reports, drowning out legitimate findings from real researchers.
Why now: Google's rare decision to suspend a long-running security program shows how generative AI is disrupting bug bounty ecosystems.
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