Daniel Stenberg: The AI Slop Era Is Over — Now curl Gets Too Many High-Quality AI-Assisted Security Reports

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The curl project's creator reports that AI-generated security slop has been replaced by an ever-increasing volume of genuinely good AI-assisted vulnerability reports, submitted faster than maintainers can evaluate them. This follows curl's January 2026 closure of its HackerOne bug bounty program (zero financial reward, GitHub issues only). The new problem: AI tools make security research so efficient that a single maintainer can't keep up with the quality-validated queue — a shift from 'bad signal' to 'too much signal.'