Google Pauses Its Bug Bounty as AI-Generated Reports Overwhelm the Queue

Google reportedly suspended part of its bug bounty program because AI-generated vulnerability reports flooded it with noise — one of several governance mechanisms now buckling under AI-scale output.

Google has paused its bug bounty over a flood of AI-generated reports, according to a roundup from @FadyEid. The mechanics are grimly predictable: bug bounty programs pay researchers for valid vulnerability disclosures, and AI tools now let anyone generate plausible-looking vulnerability reports at near-zero cost. The result is a signal-to-noise collapse, where the triage team spends more effort filtering machine-generated submissions than fixing real bugs.

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