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GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

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Re: GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

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Post by chromacity »

altcognito wrote: post #29

Billions upon billions going to these companies. 25k reward from a selected group of people if you help us determine whether or not someone can use our tool to generate weapons of mass destruction.

Because it can't and it's a publicity stunt. It achieves three goals:

1) Underscores to the general public that the models are amazingly powerful and if you're not using them, your competitors will out-innovate you,

2) Sends the message to regulators that they don't need to do anything because the companies are diligent to prevent harm,

3) Sends the message to regulators that they sure should be regulating "open-source" models, because these hippies are not doing rigorous safety testing.

Both Anthropic and OpenAI have been playing that game for years.

Re: GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

#73

Post by jfrbfbreudh »

chromacity wrote: post #71
altcognito wrote: post #29

Billions upon billions going to these companies. 25k reward from a selected group of people if you help us determine whether or not someone can use our tool to generate weapons of mass destruction.

Because it can't and it's a publicity stunt. It achieves three goals: 1) Underscores to the general public that the models are amazingly powerful and if you're not using them, your competitors will out-innovate you, 2) Sends the message to regulators that they don't need to do anything because the companies are diligent to prevent harm, 3) Sends the message to regulators that they sure should be regulating "open-sour…

If it can’t, then it makes more sense to make the bounty as high as possible instead of a measly $25k

Re: GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

#75

Post by 12_throw_away »

mrcwinn wrote: post #14
its-summertime wrote: post #13

This is just free / severely-underpaid-on-average labor. Very disgusting.

Ah yes, “free” as in “paid.” Certainly you’re welcome to not participate.

> $25,000 to the first true universal jailbreak to clear all five questions.

Now, laws vary from place to place, but I'm pretty sure "a small chance to earn money after the work is completed" is not equivalent to "payment" in most jurisdictions.

Re: GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

#76

Post by duchef »

jfrbfbreudh wrote: post #73
chromacity wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it can't and it's a publicity stunt. It achieves three goals: 1) Underscores to the general public that the models are amazingly powerful and if you're not using them, your competitors will out-innovate you, 2) Sends the message to regulators that they don't need to do anything because the companies are diligent to prevent harm, 3) Sends the message to regulators that they sure should be regulating "open-sour…

If it can’t, then it makes more sense to make the bounty as high as possible instead of a measly $25k

They don't want anyone to actually do it.

Re: GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

#78

Post by WarmWash »

nerdsniper wrote: post #59
abujazar wrote: post #20

This looks like some kind of marketing. Also, the equivalent of spec work. The NDA/secrecy also means any time spent on this is completely meaningless to the participants unless they win the lottery, because results can't be published.

It looks like if they reject paying you any bounty you would you still be bound by the NDA. If so, then they could both not pay you and still spike the story. That’s not something I would ever agree to.

I know we celebrate cynacism online, but $25k to OAI is like $0.025 to you and me.

Skimping out on 2.5 pennies you promised someone is cartoon villain levels of greed.

Yes, I know, Altman is a cartoon villain. But please, they are spending more money decorating their bathrooms. They'll pay out.

Re: GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

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Post by adgjlsfhk1 »

staticassertion wrote: post #45
Schlagbohrer wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's worse than that, for partial successes they encourage people to submit the attempt but reserve the right to not pay anything (they may, at their discretion, give a partial reward if they feel like it).

That's pretty much how every bounty works... obviously it's going to be at their discretion for an incomplete attempt.

it's unusual to have to sign the NDA for a rejected bounty
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