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OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open-source bugs
Key takeaways
- Open AI announced a new initiative on Monday designed to help the open source community improve its cybersecurity game and ward off bugs.
- Open AI said security staff from Trail of Bits will work directly with open source maintainers to review potential code issues.
- Many maintainers are already being asked to sort through more reports, more quickly, with the same limited time and resources, OpenAI said Monday.
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Open AI announced a new initiative on Monday designed to help the open source community improve its cybersecurity game and ward off bugs.
Patch the Planet, (which is a not-so-subtle allusion to Hack the Planet, the iconic catch phrase from the 1995 movie Hackers) will see Open AI team up with the security company Trail of Bits to help open source maintainers secure their projects.
Open AI said security staff from Trail of Bits will work directly with open source maintainers to review potential code issues. OpenAI s security tools — like Codex Security — will be used to assist in the process.
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