cURL Ends Bug Bounty Program After Drowning in AI-Generated Slop Reports

The cURL project has shut down its bug bounty program, citing an unmanageable flood of AI-generated vulnerability reports that waste maintainer time — a concrete signal that AI slop is now a real operational problem for open-source infrastructure.

As @ChrisShort reported, the cURL project — one of the most foundational pieces of internet infrastructure — has ended its bug bounty program because AI-generated vulnerability reports have overwhelmed the maintainers. The reports are plausible enough to require investigation but consistently lack substance, creating a worst-of-both-worlds scenario: they can't be auto-filtered, but they rarely identify real bugs.

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