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Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions

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Google has suspended its open-source bug bounty program until 2027 due to a massive influx of automated, hallucinated AI submissions that overwhelmed triage engineers with invalid reports. For engineers deploying LLM agents, this is proof that high-volume generative outputs without strict client-side filtering act as a denial-of-service attack on human-in-the-loop systems, forcing platforms to shut down public endpoints. To prevent your agents from being blacklisted, you must design agent architectures with multi-step validation layers that verify accuracy before executing external API calls or submissions.

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