“We now ban every reporter instantly who submits reports we deem AI slop,” Stenberg added. “A threshold has been reached. We are effectively being DDoSed. If we could, we would charge them for this waste of our time.”
curl now bans anyone who submits AI slop bug reports. Not one AI-assisted report in six years found a real bug. The report that broke Stenberg came from a reporter with a good reputation. Bug bounties now pay out mostly in wasted maintainer time.