A OpenAI is promoting an action to publicize the ChatGPT and make it more efficient and secure. It’s about the Bug Bounty Programwhich is aimed at ethical hackers and security researchers to find bugs in the company’s artificial intelligence technology.
With this, the measure focuses on finding and reducing to the minimum possible the number of vulnerabilities in the chatbot system capable of generating security problems, whether serious or not. An important detail is that there are rewards for each failure found, managed by the platform BugCrowd.
We’re launching the OpenAI Bug Bounty Program — earn cash awards for finding & responsibly reporting security vulnerabilities.
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) April 11, 2023
In general, rewards vary depending on the severity of the issue discovered and the potential impact it could have. Therefore, users willing to investigate ChatGPT may receive values between 200 dollars (R$ 992) e 20 mil (BRL 99 thousand). Remember that Zoom did something similar last year and offered rewards of up to $50,000.
Because ChatGPT is a recent technology, it is possible that the number of bugs is not low, which can be a good scenario to investigate and find faults in the system. So, it can be a useful measure to reduce situations like the blockade that took place in Italy recently.
So far, the bug track records a total of 14 issues found on the chatbot. As a result, the average reward offered is in the range of US$ 1.287 (BRL 6,376). If you are interested, you can check the details of the program below: