FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

FFmpeg, the essential open-source multimedia framework powering platforms like YouTube and Chrome, is demanding that Google either fund the project or stop flooding it with AI-generated bug reports. The controversy erupted when Google's AI found an obscure vulnerability in a 1995 game codec, requiring unpaid volunteers to spend valuable time fixing it. FFmpeg argues it's unfair for trillion-dollar corporations to burden volunteer maintainers with security issues while offering inadequate compensation through limited patch reward programs.