[abujazar]

This looks like some kind of marketing. Also, the equivalent of spec work. The NDA/secrecy also means any time spent on this is completely meaningless to the participants unless they win the lottery, because results can't be published.

[nerdsniper]

It looks like if they reject paying you any bounty you would you still be bound by the NDA. If so, then they could both not pay you and still spike the story. That’s not something I would ever agree to.

[WarmWash]

I know we celebrate cynacism online, but $25k to OAI is like $0.025 to you and me.

Skimping out on 2.5 pennies you promised someone is cartoon villain levels of greed.

Yes, I know, Altman is a cartoon villain. But please, they are spending more money decorating their bathrooms. They'll pay out.

[fragmede]

Will they? The NDA makes it so if they don't, we'd never know. Bug bounty programs suck but they're better than the alternative, but even running one openly, there's always convention about whether the bugs being submitted are real or not, with a lot of low quality reports that the submitter thinks are gold. That happens out in the open. Now add an NDA into the mix. Sam's reputation doesn't even have to enter into the equation for it to be a bad deal.

[__natty__]

Surely it is marketing. It’s some “we are danger” narrative, from Anthropic Mythos and now OpenAI too.

[robertfw]

OpenAI was doing this back with GPT2, saying it was too dangerous to release

[SJMG]

Dario said the same thing about GPT2 when he was at OpenAI. As you can see the digital and physically worlds are now completely compromised and life is a pale shadow of what it was 5 years ago…

These guys have poor track records and compromised incentives.