Security legend Halvar Flake: Rejecting AI-assisted bug reports over their origin is out of place
mboehme_ · x · 2026-10-23
Renowned reverse engineer Halvar Flake argues that dislike of AI-assisted bug reports is misplaced: whether an AI or a guided fuzzer found a bug, both are computational searches, and reports accompanied by PoCs shouldn't be rejected based on their AI origin. The statement touches an ongoing debate over vulnerability disclosure norms in the AI era.
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