cURL Eliminates Bug Bounties to Combat AI-Generated Error Reports
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Summary
The cURL open source project is eliminating bug bounties to combat the flood of AI-generated error reports that have been overwhelming maintainers. The decision comes after a surge of nonsensical AI-produced bug submissions, with cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg highlighting the issue last year. Bug hunter Joshua Rogers supports the move, believing it will reduce the volume of low-quality AI-generated reports that plague not only cURL but other open source projects as well.
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· 4 pulledcURL is removing the possibility to earn money by reporting bugs, hoping that this will reduce the volume of AI slop reports.
cURL has been flooded with AI-generated error reports. Now one of the incentives to create them will go away.
The vast majority of AI-generated error reports submitted to cURL are pure nonsense. Other open source projects are caught in the same pandemic.
cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg made an impact with his reporting on AI-generated bug reports last year.
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