Turso Retires Bug Bounty Program Due to Overwhelming AI-Generated Slop Submissions
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Summary
Turso is retiring its $1,000 bug bounty program for data corruption bugs after nearly a year, citing an overwhelming influx of low-quality, AI-generated (slop) submissions. The maintainers have been forced to spend days closing fake PRs claiming data corruption bugs, making the program unsustainable. The article reflects on how AI-generated content is flooding open-source projects and making targeted bounty programs unmanageable.
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The reason is simple: everybody is being inundated by the slop machine.
For days, our maintainers have done little else other than close slop PRs claiming to have found bugs that led to data corruption in Turso.
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