Apple limits bug bounty programs as it struggles to keep pace with ‘AI slop’ hunters

Apple has restricted the number of potentially dangerous software bugs researchers can submit to its internal security team, as it faces a deluge of reports from people using AI models to identify alleged risks, according to reporting by Tom Wilson in London and Michael Acton in San Francisco for Financial Times.
The Cupertino-based tech giant told the FT it had moved in June to limit the high volume of requests it was receiving, with its review system coming under pressure from “AI slop&