Bing AI Joins Microsoft's Bug Bounty Program – And The Payouts Are Large

Of explicit curiosity in Microsoft’s newest bug bounty initiative are vectors concentrating on Bing Chat. A rival to ChatGPT and Google Bard, Microsoft’s AI chatbot is an important component of the corporate’s imaginative and prescient to make the search expertise extra immersive and rewarding. However given some well-known faults within the not-too-distant previous, it’s no surprise that Microsoft desires unbiased minds to have a go and uncover points with a reward deal.

“Influencing and altering Bing’s chat conduct throughout person boundaries,” “modifying Bing’s chat conduct,” “bypassing Bing’s chat mode session limits,” and forcing Bing to disclose confidential info are a number of the areas that Microsoft desires consultants to interrupt. These facets are sometimes mentioned on social media and consultants additionally are inclined to problem the guardrails of those AI fashions.

Even Microsoft admits that “Bing is powered by AI, so surprises and errors are doable.” That is not merely a regular warning. The chatbot is sometimes recognized to go off the rails and act creepy, particularly when an individual engages in lengthy, deep conversations. That is additionally the rationale why Microsoft determined to restrict person queries to 50 per day and solely allowed 5 questions per session. Then, there’s additionally the entire saga of Microsoft’s Tay chatbot that really went bananas on Twitter a number of years in the past and needed to be pulled shortly.