OpenAI will start paying people as much as $20,000 (R366,981) to help the company find bugs in its artificial intelligence systems, such as the massively popular ChatGPT chatbot.<\/p>\n
The AI company wrote in a blog post on Tuesday that it has rolled out a bug bounty program<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0through which people can report weaknesses, bugs or security problems they find while using its AI products.<\/p>\n Such programs, which are common in the tech industry, entail companies paying users for reporting bugs or other security flaws.<\/p>\n OpenAI said it\u2019s rolling it out in partnership with Bugcrowd Inc., which is a bug bounty platform.<\/p>\n The company will pay cash rewards depending on the size of the bugs uncovered, ranging from $200 (R3,673) for what it calls \u201clow-severity findings\u201d to $20,000 (R366,981) for \u201cexceptional discoveries.\u201d<\/p>\n The company said part of why it\u2019s rolling out the program is because it believes \u201ctransparency and collaboration\u201d are key to finding vulnerabilities in its technology.<\/p>\n \u201cThis initiative is an essential part of our commitment to developing safe and advanced AI,\u201d said the blog post, written by Matthew Knight, OpenAI\u2019s head of security.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we create technology and services that are secure, reliable and trustworthy, we would like your help.\u201d<\/p>\n The Bugcrowd page for OpenAI\u2019s bounty program details a number of safety issues related to the models that aren\u2019t eligible for rewards, including jailbreak prompts, questions that result in an AI model writing malicious code, or queries that result in an model saying bad things to a user.<\/p>\n The announcement doesn\u2019t come as a complete surprise. Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of the San Francisco-based company, recently mentioned on Twitter<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that OpenAI had been \u201cconsidering starting a bounty program\u201d or network of \u201cred-teamers\u201d to detect weak spots.<\/p>\n He made the comment in response to a post written by Alex Albert, a 22-year old\u00a0jailbreak prompt enthusiast<\/strong><\/a> whose website (jailbreakchat.com) compiles written prompts intended to get around the safeguards chatbots like ChatGPT have in place.<\/p>\n \u201cDemocratised red teaming is one reason we deploy these models,\u201d Brockman wrote.<\/p>\n The company will pay cash rewards depending on the size of the bugs uncovered, ranging from $200 (R3,673) for what it calls \u201clow-severity findings\u201d to $20,000 (R366,981) for \u201cexceptional discoveries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":479605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35793,40800,83065,45266,49767],"class_list":["post-487385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-bug-bounty","tag-chatgpt","tag-openai","tag-security-vulnerabilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487391,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487385\/revisions\/487391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: ChatGPT leaked payment details to wrong users<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"