“Google gave me a $1000 bounty, and a few months later the bug became public.”
She had stray edit access to a Chromium bug and changed her $1,000 bounty to $1,333,337 as a joke. Google reverted it the next day. An AI Community Note, an AI “news” site and Google’s own AI Overview spread the fake number anyway. Google’s AI trusted a tweet over Google’s own bug tracker.
