WORLDTECHOpenAI raises top bug bounty payouts and adds bonuses for strong reports
OpenAI has enlarged its security bug bounty payouts, with the top award reported at $172,000 and extra bonuses for strong reports. The move aims to bring outside researchers into hunting for weaknesses in the company's software.
Rewards rise across severity tiers
Help Net Security reports that the average midpoints of the reward ranges for medium, high and critical findings have more than quadrupled. The same outlet gives $172,000 as the largest single payout.
Alongside the base rewards, the program now grants bonuses for reports of high quality.
Link to internal testing
The scheme encourages researchers to disclose vulnerabilities responsibly. It complements the Defense Factory, where OpenAI engineers use the company's models to locate and reproduce vulnerabilities and to test fixes.
About the company
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco. These figures rest on a single outlet's report and WORLDTECH has not independently verified them.
Open questions
- Does the $172,000 maximum apply to every critical finding or only to particular categories?
- How many reports has the expanded program received since the change?