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OpenAI Makes Finding Its Bugs a Better-Paid Outside Job
· New York time
OpenAI is quadrupling bug bounty payouts, with researchers able to earn up to $172,000, and launching a new internal security sprint. The program gives independent researchers a financial reason to look for weaknesses and report them to the company. A bounty is a practical bargain: outsiders test products from different angles, and the company gets a chance to address qualifying problems. The top figure is a maximum, not a promise that every report earns six figures. OpenAI is also working on its defenses internally, so the outside program complements rather than replaces its own security work. The larger rewards make an attractive advertisement for researchers whose skill is finding the things a product team would rather have caught first. In ordinary office life, pointing out a colleague's mistake may earn a tense meeting. In a bug bounty program, the right discovery can come with a check. The arrangement still depends on more than the size of the advertised prize. Useful reports need to reach the company, and identified problems need attention. The security sprint and the bounty both suggest that OpenAI expects protecting its systems to require continuous work. The digital house has an internal repair crew, but it is also paying visitors to inspect the locks.
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