OpenAI Just Put a Bounty on Prompt Injection. Here's How to Defend Against It Today.

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OpenAI Just Put a Bounty on Prompt Injection. Here's How to Defend Against It Today. OpenAI launched a new bug bounty program this week - and the headline target is prompt injection. Not XSS. The attack where a malicious input hijacks your AI into doing something it shouldn't - leaking data, bypassing controls, executing unauthorized actions. They're paying up to $7,500 for reproducible findings. That's OpenAI officially saying: this is a real attack class, and we haven't fully solved it. Here's what that means for everyone building on top of AI.