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03 Oct 2026, 8:00 PM	Tom's Hardware	7.0	Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions Google has suspended the product-vulnerability side of its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP), with submissions ending October 1 and the freeze reportedly running until 2027. Tom's Hardware attributes the halt to a flood of invalid, AI-generated submissions that maintainers describe as hallucinations. The headline frames it as open-source maintainers drowning in low-quality automated reports. Why: If you run a bug bounty, a security intake form, or any public issue tracker, this is the failure mode to design against now: AI-generated reports can scale faster than humans can triage them, and the cost lands on maintainers, not submitters. The concrete decision is whether to add submission gating (proof-of-concept requirement, reputation thresholds, rate limits, or paid bounties only) before your queue becomes unreadable — Google's answer here was to close the program entirely rather than triage. open-source bug-bounty ai-slop security maintainer-tooling

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03 Oct 2026, 8:00 PM

Tom's Hardware

7.0

Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions

Google has suspended the product-vulnerability side of its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP), with submissions ending October 1 and the freeze reportedly running until 2027. Tom's Hardware attributes the halt to a flood of invalid, AI-generated submissions that maintainers describe as hallucinations. The headline frames it as open-source maintainers drowning in low-quality automated reports.

Why: If you run a bug bounty, a security intake form, or any public issue tracker, this is the failure mode to design against now: AI-generated reports can scale faster than humans can triage them, and the cost lands on maintainers, not submitters. The concrete decision is whether to add submission gating (proof-of-concept requirement, reputation thresholds, rate limits, or paid bounties only) before your queue becomes unreadable — Google's answer here was to close the program entirely rather than triage.