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Google Pauses Open Source Bug Bounty Amid AI-Generated Report Flood
Original: Google Pauses Open Source Bug Bounty After Flood of AI-Generated Reports
Google has paused its open source bug bounty program after being overwhelmed by a flood of AI-generated vulnerability reports. The company says automated tools have produced so much low-quality or invalid submissions that triaging genuine bugs became impractical. The move highlights a growing problem for security teams as AI makes it cheap to mass-produce plausible-looking but often useless bug reports.
Why now: It illustrates how generative AI is disrupting established security workflows and bug bounty programs.
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