OpenAI, the company behind chatbot sensation ChatGPT is offering up to $20,000 (£16,106) to users for reporting holes in its artificial intelligence systems.

The OpenAI Bug Bounty program, which went live on Tuesday, will offer rewards to people based on the severity of the bugs they report, with rewards starting from $200 per vulnerability.

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

According to details on bug bounty platform Bugcrowd, OpenAI has invited researchers to review certain functionality of ChatGPT and the framework of how OpenAI systems communicate and share data with third-party applications.

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

In March, OpenAI was affected by a bug that caused a ‘significant issue’ where some users were able to see the titles of others’ conversation history with the chatbot.

As a result of the fix, users were not able to access their chat history on ChatGPT for a few hours.

Last month, Microsoft Corp-backed OpenAI launched its artificial intelligence model GPT-4, an upgrade from GPT-3.5, which was made available to users in November.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has previously called GPT-4 ‘most capable and aligned’ with human values and intent, though ‘it is still flawed’.

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