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OpenAI will offer up to R$100 to users who report bugs.

The OpenAI Bug Bounty program, launched this Tuesday, will offer rewards to people based on the severity of the bugs they report.

Illustration featuring the OpenAI and ChatGPT logos (Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic)

(Reuters)- OpenAI, the company behind the viral chatbot ChatGPT, said on Tuesday that it will offer up to $20 to users who report vulnerabilities in its artificial intelligence systems, so-called "bugs."

The OpenAI Bug Bounty program, launched this Tuesday, will offer rewards to people based on the severity of the bugs reported. The minimum reward is $200 per bug.

Technology companies often use bug bounty programs to encourage ethical programmers and hackers to report bugs in software systems.

According to details from the bug bounty platform Bugcrowd, OpenAI is investigating certain functionalities of ChatGPT and the structure of how the company's systems communicate and track data with third-party applications.

The program does not include incorrect or malicious content produced by OpenAI systems.

The move comes days after ChatGPT was banned in Italy for allegedly violating privacy rules, prompting regulators in other European countries to take a closer look at generative artificial intelligence services.

ChatGPT, from OpenAI, which has Microsoft as a shareholder, has impressed some users with its quick answers to questions asked on the platform, while causing distress to others due to certain inaccuracies.