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Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop

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: Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots

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Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop

: Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots

2 days ago

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Curl Creator Mulls Nixing Bug Bounty Awards To Stop AI Slop

Daniel Stenberg, creator of the curl utility, is considering ending its bug bounty program due to a surge in low-quality, AI-generated reports that are overwhelming the small volunteer team. Despite attempts to discourage AI-assisted submissions, these reports now make up about 20% of all entries in...

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Linux-Magazin

Curl: Bug Bounty Program Thanks to Ai Spam Before the End?

The Curl project is still struggling with false error messages that generate AI systems. The developer team is now even thinking openly about setting up the bug bounty program. Again and again resourceful people submit bug reports that they have obviously created using a fantasizing AI. Curl developers have to look at these reports time-consumingly and then sort them out as nonsense.

2 days ago

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unsafe.sh

Open-Source Utility Curl Considers Stopping Bug Bounties After Being Bombarded with Fake Ai-Generated Vulnerability Reports

The open source tool cURL is considering stopping its bug bounty program due to a surge in false vulnerability reports generated by AI, which seriously wastes review time. Since 2019, 81 vulnerabilities have been rewarded with $90,000, but the spam reports have overwhelmed the team. The person in charge, Daniel, is faced with the dilemma of continuing or canceling.

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