Curl will stop bug bounties program due to avalanche of AI slop

A small team was being bombarded with submissions, many of which were low-quality, or AI-generated.

Curl ending bug bounty program after flood of AI slop reports

The developer of the popular curl command-line utility and library announced that the project will end its HackerOne security ...
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Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop

Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming ‘silly' ones The maintainer of popular open-source data transfer tool cURL has ended the project’s bug bounty program after ...

curl: Project ends bug bounty program

Daniel Stenberg has announced the end of the bug bounty program. Unusable AI reports likely became too prevalent.

Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure “intact mental health”

His comments came as cURL users complained that the move was treating the symptoms caused by AI slop without addressing the ...