Why frontier AI labs' bug bounties are cheap: their models flood the supply
lxrjl · x · 2026-10-23
viksit observes frontier AI labs set surprisingly cheap bug bounties despite deep pockets — plausibly because their own models find and exploit vulnerabilities at scale, flooding supply. But if models can find bugs, why aren't they patched? Likely because models are far better at identifying problems than fixing them without creating new ones. He warns the cyber offense-defense balance looks bleak as open-source models catch up.
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