Turso Shuts Down Bug Bounty Program as AI Slop Overwhelms Maintainers

Turso has retired its $1,000 bug bounty program after being inundated with AI-generated submissions that falsely claimed to have discovered data corruption vulnerabilities. This reflects a broader crisis in open-source maintenance: as AI tools democratize content creation, projects struggle to distinguish genuine contributions from synthetic noise while remaining welcoming to legitimate community participation.