OpenAI doubles bio bug bounty rewards to $50k for GPT-5.6 jailbreaks
Electronic-Bus-3494 · reddit · 2026-08-31
OpenAI is upgrading its Bio Bug Bounty program to an ongoing private initiative, doubling rewards to $50,000 for universal jailbreaks that bypass biosafety safeguards in GPT‑5.6. The program aims to prevent AI from being used to create biological weapons, and researchers can now apply for the rolling program.
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