Apple Intelligence bug bounty invites researchers to test its privacy claims

Apple is inviting investigations into the Private Cloud Compute (PCC) strategy that powers much computationally intensive Apple Intelligence requests. The institution is besides expanding its bug bounty programme to connection payouts of up to $1,000,000 for radical who observe PCC vulnerabilities.

The institution has boasted astir however galore AI features (branded arsenic Apple Intelligence) volition tally on-device without leaving your Mac, iPhone, oregon different Apple hardware. Still, for much hard requests, it volition nonstop them to PCC servers that are built using Apple Silicon and a caller operating system.

Many AI applications from different companies besides trust connected servers to implicit much hard requests. Still, users don’t person overmuch enactment of show into however unafraid those server-based operations are. Apple, of course, has made a big deal implicit the years astir however overmuch it cares astir idiosyncratic privacy, truthful poorly designed unreality servers for AI could poke a spread successful that image. To forestall that, Apple said it designed the PCC truthful that the company’s information and privateness guarantees are enforceable and that information researchers tin independently verify those guarantees.

For researchers, Apple is offering:

With the bug bounty, Apple is offering payouts from $50,000 to $1,000,000 for vulnerabilities discovered crossed a fewer antithetic categories. Apple besides volition measure immoderate information contented for a imaginable reward that “has a important interaction to PCC.”

The archetypal Apple Intelligence features are acceptable to motorboat for everyone with iOS 18.1, which is expected adjacent week. Some of the bigger Apple Intelligence features, including Genmoji and ChatGPT integration, appeared successful the archetypal iOS 18.2 developer beta released yesterday.