--- title: High-Quality Chaos | daily.dev description: Daniel Stenberg, curl's maintainer, describes a new era of AI-assisted security research affecting open source projects. After shutting down curl's bug bounty... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/high-quality-chaos-gkbh5roqh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: High-Quality Chaos | daily.dev og:description: Daniel Stenberg, curl's maintainer, describes a new era of AI-assisted security research affecting open source projects. After shutting down curl's bug bounty... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/high-quality-chaos-gkbh5roqh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gKbh5rOQh.png og:image:alt: High-Quality Chaos og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # High-Quality Chaos **[daniel.haxx.se](https://daily.dev/sources/danielhaxxse)** · 4 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Daniel Stenberg, curl's maintainer, describes a new era of AI-assisted security research affecting open source projects. After shutting down curl's bug bounty due to low-quality AI-generated spam submissions, the project moved back to HackerOne in March 2026. The result: report volume doubled again, but quality is now high — confirmed vulnerability rates returned to ~15-16%. Nearly every report now shows signs of AI assistance. A Mastodon poll confirmed the same trend across dozens of major open source projects including Linux kernel, Firefox, git, Django, and many others. Curl alone may publish close to 50 CVEs in 2026, a record. The concern is that maintainer capacity won't keep pace with the flood of valid reports, and that bad actors can use the same AI tools to find vulnerabilities before patches are deployed. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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