Google hits pause on open source bug bounties amid AI surge
google paused its open source bug bounty program due to a significant rise in ai submissions, mostly invalid, overwhelming engineers and maintainers.
google has paused its open source bug bounty program until the first quarter of 2027 due to a significant rise in automated ai submissions. the company stated that the vast majority of these submissions were not valid. google engineers and open source maintainers were overwhelmed by reports that were invalid or contained hallucinations. participants are encouraged to consider google's other bug bounty programs.