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AI slop floods Google bug bounty, forcing a freeze

Original: AI slop submissions force Google to freeze its open-source bug bounty

Google has suspended its open-source vulnerability reward program after a wave of low-quality, AI-generated bug reports overwhelmed reviewers. Security researchers say automated tools are mass-submitting plausible-sounding but useless vulnerability reports, drowning out genuine findings and making the program impossible to operate. The freeze highlights a wider problem: generative AI is now clogging bug bounty pipelines across the industry.

Why now: AI-generated spam is overwhelming Google's vulnerability reward program, forcing a rare public freeze of a major open-source security initiative.

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