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AI-generated fake bug reports overwhelm Google's security bounty program

Original: Google paid bug hunters to find open-source flaws, then AI flooded the queue with made-up bugs

Google's bug bounty scheme, which pays security researchers to find vulnerabilities in open-source software, has been flooded with large volumes of AI-generated bug reports that appear plausible but are often fabricated or useless. The influx is overwhelming reviewers and making it harder to surface genuine flaws, raising concerns that AI tools are now degrading security research channels built on human expertise.

Why now: People are talking about how generative AI is now flooding security pipelines with low-quality automated reports, threatening a trusted vulnerability-reporting system.

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• Google paid bug hunters to find open-source flaws, then AI flooded the queue with made-up bugs · The Cool Down
• Google paid bug hunters to find open-source flaws, then AI flooded the queue with made-up bugs · Yahoo News UK

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