Lesson 522 of 1550
AI Bug Bounty Programs
Bug bounty programs find issues internal teams miss. AI bug bounties have specific design considerations.
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- 1The premise
- 2bug bounty
- 3AI specific
- 4design
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The premise
AI bug bounties find issues; design considerations specific to AI matter.
What AI does well here
- Define scope (model behavior, prompt injection, data leakage)
- Compensate fairly per finding severity
- Coordinate with researcher community
- Act on findings substantively
What AI cannot do
- Substitute bounties for internal safety work
- Catch every issue through bounties
- Make every bounty researcher happy
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