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Bug bounty businesses bombarded with AI slop

2026-05-18 · Ars Technica

AI is now so good at being useless that it's flooding bug bounty programs with fake vulnerability reports, making actual security researchers' jobs harder. Companies are drowning in AI-generated slop submissions that waste time and resources meant for finding real bugs. Turns out the biggest vulnerability was letting AI near the submit button.

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