OpenAI, the firm behind chatbot ChatGPT, said it would offer up to $20,000 to users / developers reporting vulnerabilities in its artificial intelligence systems.
OpenAI Bug Bounty program, which went live on Tuesday, will offer rewards to people based on the severity of the bugs they report, with rewards starting from $200 per vulnerability.
Technology companies often use bug bounty programs to encourage programmers and ethical hackers to report bugs in their software systems. Microsoft is funding OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
According to details on bug bounty platform Bugcrowd, OpenAI has invited researchers to review certain functionality of ChatGPT and the framework of how OpenAI systems communicate and share data with third-party applications.
The program does not include incorrect or malicious content produced by OpenAI systems. Several users complaint about inaccurate content produced by OpenAI systems.
Italy banned ChatGPT for a suspected breach of privacy rules, prompting regulators in other European countries to study generative AI services more closely.