In January of this year, the creator and lead maintainer of cURL announced the end of the project’s bug bounty program. His reasoning was that his team was drowning in garbage reports.

So did AI slop bounty submissions kill this program? Yes. But it’s a topic that deserves much more exploration. 

We asked a topic hacker (who uses AI tools regularly) to breakdown the situation and give his hot takes about the situation. Spoiler alert…AI is not the villain; laziness is.