Intel shut its bug bounty as machine-written reports flood the pipeline
YvesMulkers · x · 2026-10-06
Yves Mulkers highlights an AI-era asymmetry: Intel shut down its bug bounty program because submissions are now largely machine-generated. "Producing got cheap, checking did not"—nobody repriced verification.
The takeaway: as AI drives the cost of generating low-quality reports toward zero, the cost of human verification becomes the bottleneck—widening a verification asymmetry that now affects far more than security research.
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