curl Removes Bug Bounties
“AI slop and bad reports in general have been increasing even more lately, so we have to try to brake the flood in order not to drown”, says cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg to Swedish electronics industry news site etn.se.
Therefore, cURL is terminating the bounty payouts as of the end of January.
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Not all AI-generated bug reports are nonsense. It’s not possible to determine the exact share, but Daniel Stenberg knows of more than a hundred good AI assisted reports that led to corrections.
curl (Hacker News):
We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports.
Previously:
- Evolution of Apple Security Bounty Program
- curl Takes Action Against AI Bug Reports
- The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable
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Cue the (utterly predictable) criticism from the AI boosters that the real problem was that AI wasn't used to filter the reports.
It's a shame, but I suspect they're probably right up to a point, we'll have to fight fire with fire. We're entering a new age …
Thanks for running such a meticulously curated site, Michael. Because of your tagging, I was quickly able to find the news from May and resolve my cognitive dissonance that this current development had already happened months ago.
