Apple Limits Bug Bounty Submissions After Flood of AI Slop
Apple Limits Bug Bounty Submissions After Flood of AI SlopTuesday August 4, 2026 12:45 pm PDT by Juli CloverApple limited the number of vulnerabilities security researchers can submit to its bug bounty program because of an uptick in reports about fake bugs hallucinated by AI, according to The Financial Times. Apple said its bug review system was seeing a high volume of poor-quality submissions from amateur bug hunters using AI to locate vulnerabilities. In some cases, there is no actual vulnerability, and real submissions are lost in the deluge.
- ▪Apple Limits Bug Bounty Submissions After Flood of AI SlopTuesday August 4, 2026 12:45 pm PDT by Juli CloverApple limited the number of vulnerabilities security researchers can submit to its bug bounty program because of an uptick in report
- ▪Apple said its bug review system was seeing a high volume of poor-quality submissions from amateur bug hunters using AI to locate vulnerabilities.
- ▪In some cases, there is no actual vulnerability, and real submissions are lost in the deluge.
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Apple Limits Bug Bounty Submissions After Flood of AI SlopTuesday August 4, 2026 12:45 pm PDT by Juli CloverApple limited the number of vulnerabilities security researchers can submit to its bug bounty program because of an uptick in reports about fake bugs hallucinated by AI, according to The Financial Times. Apple said its bug review system was seeing a high volume of poor-quality submissions from amateur bug hunters using AI to locate vulnerabilities. In some cases, there is no actual vulnerability, and real submissions are lost in the deluge. The Financial Times learned of the limit after cybersecurity startup Bynario used ChatGPT to locate more than 50 macOS bugs in three weeks.
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