Microsoft launches new bounty initiative to identify the vulnerabilities of its AI products.

The American IT giant Microsoft promised to pay between 2,000 and 15,000 US dollars to anyone from individual developers to research teams who are able to outsmart its artificial intelligence Bing or find vulnerabilities and security flaws the company has outlooked during its design, or crack down its code. 

The following products and integrations are eligible for bounty awards:

• AI-powered Bing experiences on bing.com in Browser (All major vendors are supported, including Bing Chat, Bing Chat for Enterprise, and Bing Image Creator);
• AI-powered Bing integration in Microsoft Edge (Windows), including Bing Chat for Enterprise;
• AI-powered Bing integration in the Microsoft Start Application (iOS and Android);
• AI-powered Bing integration in the Skype Mobile Application (iOS and Android).

“The goal of the Microsoft AI bounty program is to uncover significant vulnerabilities in the new, innovative, AI-powered Bing experience that have a direct and demonstrable impact on the security of our customers,” the corporation said on its program page. 

The bounty amounts depend on severity and quality levels, which means that the best documentation of the most critical bugs will be rewarded the most money.

Under the submission eligibility criteria, Bing users must inform Microsoft of a previously unknown vulnerability, which is either "important" or "critical" to security. They must also be able to reproduce it via video or in writing, as explained with examples here. 

Those able to drive Bing AI “crazy” – meaning inconclusive answers – or “crippling” the software – meaning leaving it “speechless” – qualify too.

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The initiative comes as a result of a growing number of complaints that Bing “behaves” not as Microsoft had expected: it threatened people, gave criminal advice, spit out offensive content, spied on users through their webcams, and many more.

Microsoft launched Bing Chat, an artificial intelligence chatbot experience based on the GPT-4 model in February 2023, integrating it directly into the search engine. Bing AI competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, JasperChat, Perplexity, YouChat, Chatsonic and many others in a rapidly expanding AI market.

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