{"id":174065,"date":"2026-01-22T22:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/overrun-with-ai-slop-curl-scraps-bug-bounties-to-ensure-intact-mental-health\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T22:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:46:30","slug":"overrun-with-ai-slop-curl-scraps-bug-bounties-to-ensure-intact-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/overrun-with-ai-slop-curl-scraps-bug-bounties-to-ensure-intact-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure &#8220;intact mental health&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The project developer for one of the Internet\u2019s most popular networking tools is scrapping its vulnerability reward program after being overrun by a spike in the submission of low-quality reports, much of it AI-generated slop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are just a small single open source project with a small number of active maintainers,\u201d Daniel Stenberg, the founder and lead developer of the open source app cURL, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/curl\/curl\/pull\/20312\">said Thursday<\/a>. \u201cIt is not in our power to change how all these people and their slop machines work. We need to make moves to ensure our survival and intact mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Manufacturing bogus bugs<\/h2>\n<p>His comments came as cURL users complained that the move was treating the symptoms caused by AI slop without addressing the cause. The users said they were concerned the move would eliminate a key means for ensuring and maintaining the security of the tool. Stenberg largely agreed, but indicated his team had little choice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2026\/01\/overrun-with-ai-slop-curl-scraps-bug-bounties-to-ensure-intact-mental-health\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2026\/01\/overrun-with-ai-slop-curl-scraps-bug-bounties-to-ensure-intact-mental-health\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project developer for one of the Internet\u2019s most popular networking tools is scrapping its vulnerability reward program after being overrun by a spike in the submission of low-quality reports, much of it AI-generated slop. \u201cWe are just a small single open source project with a small number of active maintainers,\u201d Daniel Stenberg, the founder and lead developer of the open source app cURL, said Thursday. \u201cIt is not in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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