The CURL Project Drops Bug Bounties Due To AI Slop
2 days ago · Over the past years, the author of the cURL project, [Daniel Stenberg], has repeatedly complained about the increasingly poor quality of bug reports filed due to LLM chatbot-induced …
Curl ending bug bounty program after flood of AI slop reports
6 days ago · "Up until the end of January 2026 there was a curl bug bounty. It is no more. The curl project no longer offers any rewards for reported bugs or vulnerabilities. We also do not aid...
Curl will stop bug bounties program due to avalanche of AI ...
6 days ago · The developers of curl, the open source command-line tool and software library, are killing their HackerOne bug bounty program because they are being flooded with fake problems and...
Curl to End Bug Bounty Following Low-Quality AI-Generated ...
3 days ago · The curl project ended its bug bounty in January 2026 after a flood of low-quality reports, highlighting issues with paying for bugs.
cURL stops Bug Bounty | Why AI falls for prompt injection
2 days ago · The team of curl was not able to handle it. Motivation for a bug bounty program - In a bug bounty program, any individual is allowed to scan a program (within a set of rules) for vulnerabilities.
Curl shutters bug bounty program to stop AI slop • The Register
Jan 21, 2026 · The maintainer of popular open-source data transfer tool cURL has ended the project’s bug bounty program after maintainers struggled to assess a flood of AI-generated contributions.
Curl eliminates bug bounty program due to AI slop - CSO Online
Jan 22, 2026 · Lately, the Curl code library has been receiving a lot of AI-generated reports from users hoping to receive financial compensation from the tool’s bug bounty program. Going through all the ...