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Google pauses open-source bug bounty until 2027 amid AI slop reports
Original: Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions — product flaw submissions halted until 2027 as maintainers drown in hallucinations
Google has suspended submissions to its open-source bug bounty program, halting product flaw reports until 2027. The pause follows a flood of invalid, AI-generated reports that has overwhelmed engineers and open-source maintainers with thousands of sloppy, hallucinated submissions. The move has drawn attention to how automated low-quality output is choking security research pipelines that rely on human triage.
Why now: AI-generated spam is disrupting a major bug bounty program, a widely shared concern in developer and security communities.
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- Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions — product flaw submissions halted until 2027 as maintainers drown in hallucinations · Tom's Hardware
Engineers and open-source maintainers reportedly overwhelmed by thousands of sloppy reports
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