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by 2001zhaozhao 6 days ago
They seem to be doing this to disincentive people who spam bug reports with AI where only 10% of them are actually real.

Instead, now you probably need to be actually vetting your bug reports yourself so that a large percentage of them are real, before they let you in the verified program, where you get a normal amount of payout.

So it incentivizes high quality AI bug spamming (if you can manage it) over low quality AI bug spamming. In turn since less people are doing low quality AI bug spamming, Github gets to spend less time filtering the low quality reports.