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Curl maintainer: AI security reports are no longer slop

Curl project maintainer Daniel Stenberg reports that the issue of AI-generated slop security reports has been resolved. After shutting down the bug bounty program in February 2026, the project returned to Hackerone in March and found that submissions are now of higher quality, no longer dominated by AI junk.

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Curl maintainer: AI security reports are no longer slop
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  • The curl project shut down its bug bounty program due to a flood of AI-generated slop reports.
  • After switching back to Hackerone in March 2026, the quality of security reports improved significantly.
  • The maintainer confirms that AI slop is no longer a problem.

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