This week OpenAI announced it will offer bug bounty rewards of up to US$20,000 (AU$29,481) for anyone who can find problems inside the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT. Unfortunately, it won’t offer a cent if you’re able to elicit the all too common incorrect statements from the chatbot service.
OpenAI has launched this community-sourced testing in the wake of an outage where sensitive information from paying ChatGPT users was leaked, including “unintentional visibility of payment-related information of 1.2% of the ChatGPT Plus subscribers.” Not a great look for the poster child of the new frontier of large language models and artificial intelligence, especially as calls grow louder for a deliberate slowdown in the progress of this somewhat frightening area, with GPT-4 recently reported to have hired a human to help it solve a CAPTCHA test.
In a statement OpenAI has invited, “the global community of security researchers, ethical hackers, and technology enthusiasts to help us identify and address vulnerabilities in our systems.”
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“To incentivize testing and as a token of our appreciation, we will be offering cash rewards based on the severity and impact of the reported issues. Our rewards range from $200 for low-severity findings to up to $20,000 for exceptional discoveries. We recognize the importance of your contributions and are committed to acknowledging your efforts.”
So if you’re intimately familiar with ChatGPT, this OpenAI bug bounty is your chance to unlock a payday.
