This document serves as the official rules, terms, and conditions of HackAPrompt 2.0 (the “Contest”). Please see below for rules related to eligibility, the event, judging, and prizes. In order to participate in the Contest, you must agree to these rules, as well the other terms and conditions of this agreement (together, the “Rules”) and the Terms of Use of HackAPrompt’s website and related sites, which is available at www.hackaprompt.com/termsofuse. You agree that submission of any entry in the Contest constitutes agreement to these Rules. You may not submit an entry to the Contest and are not eligible to receive the prizes described in these Rules unless you agree and fully comply with these Rules. These rules form a binding legal agreement between you (“Participant”) and HackAPrompt, Inc. (“Organizer”) with respect to the Contest. I. Event Title & Details HackAPrompt 2.0 Start May 16 (“Event Dates”) To be Held Virtually II. Rules Eligibility: The Contest is open to individuals who are 18 years or older. Employees of HackAPrompt or event sponsors, and their respective immediate family members and persons living in their same household, are not eligible to participate in the Contest. Your Participation: You can participate as part of a team of up to four (4) total people or on an individual basis. Switching teams is not allowed. An individual who is on a team may not also participate as an individual. The Organizer will not assist in resolving any disputes between team members. To participate, all participants must register at hackaprompt.com on or before June 30. Individuals and teams may submit one submission per Challenge (defined below) but participate in any number of Challenges. Format: The Contest will run through the Event Dates. During this period, Participants will be invited to generate certain jailbreaking and prompt injection attacks on LLMs designated by the Organizer, each organized into distinct “challenges” grouped into five pre-determined tracks: Classic, Agents, Attacks of the Future, Open Track 1, and Open Track 2 (the “Challenge” or “Challenges”). The Organizer will announce in writing any terms or restrictions specific to any particular Challenge (any such term or restriction shall be deemed incorporated into the Rules), along with the timeline of the Challenge, prior to commencement of each specific Challenge. Once the Challenge has begun, participants will test prompts in a playground designated by Organizer that utilizes a base/safety tuned model. The individual participant or team will then choose a final prompt to submit as its official submission for the Challenge (“Submission”). III. Judging Criteria All Submissions will initially be assigned a score using our automated systems, which will constitute that Submission’s score for the purpose of the leaderboard. Periodically, but no less than once per week, a human evaluator designated by the Organizer will review the top 10% of the submissions and thereafter assign a modified score, which will then be posted to the leaderboard. The individual or team with the highest score at the end of the challenge will be declared the winner. Note that the score assigned by our automated system and the human evaluator may not be challenged or appealed. The Organizer has the right to assign and/or modify the score of any Submission at any time in its sole and absolute discretion. Likewise, the Organizer may disqualify any Submission or Participant in its sole and absolute discretion, including after declaring a Submission to be the winner of the Challenge, if it reasonably believes that the Submission or Participant may have violated the Rules. IV. Prizes The Submission with the highest score according to criteria mentioned through the website at the close of a Challenge shall receive a cash prize (“Prize”), which will be established by the Organizer and disclosed to participants in writing before the commencement of each Challenge. Winners will be notified by email at the email address they used for registration within thirty (30) business days of the close of the Challenge. To receive the Prize, Winners will be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility, a publicity/liability release, a W-9 tax form, and a copy of each Participant’s driver’s license and/or passport for KYC obligations. You will not be eligible to receive any Prize if you are on the U.S Department of Treasury’s “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List” or are located in a country embargoed by the U.S. If within sixty (60) days from the date of notice a winner does not provide all of the aforementioned information to the Organizer, fails to respond, cannot be contacted, or is ineligible, the Prize may be forfeited and an alternate winner will be selected based on the next highest score for that Challenge. Payments will be made in U.S. Dollars only and remitted via ACH, wire or check. Winners are solely responsible for any and all federal, state, provincial and local taxes, if any, that apply to Prizes. The total value of a winning team’s Prize will be allocated equally among the registered team members for tax purposes, but Organizer shall have no liability whatsoever on how a Prize is split or allocated among participants on a winning team. The odds of winning any particular Prize depends on the total number of Submissions for the associated Challenge and associated skill-based success criteria. Any payout bonuses are provided on a per user basis. For a list of winners, email support@hackaprompt.com with “Winners List” as the subject. V. Intellectual Property Participant represents and warrants that its Submission will not and does not violate any agreement or obligation to any invention assignment, proprietary information, confidentiality, noncompetition or similar agreement with any employer, entity or person. Participant represents and warrants that the Submission is and will be Participant’s own original work and does not and will not infringe the intellectual property or proprietary rights of any third-party, including, without limitation, any third-party patents, copyrights or trademarks. Participant hereby agrees not to instigate, support, maintain or authorize any action, claim, or lawsuit against the Organizer or any sponsor, agent, representative, or employee of HackAPrompt 2.0 or Learn Prompting Company, Inc., on the grounds that any use of a Participant’s Submission, infringes any of Participant’s rights as creator of the Submission, including, without limitation, trademark rights, copyrights and moral rights or “droit moral.” Participant hereby assigns and transfers and agrees to assign and transfer to Organizer all right, title, and interest in and to Participant’s Submission and consequently Organizer will have all rights to copy, edit, publicly display, publicly perform, create derivative works, license, monetize, broadcast, publish and use, in whole or in part, any Submission, in any manner without compensation or notice during and after the Contest. At Organizer’s request, Participant will assist and cooperate with Organizer in all respects to execute documents, and will take such further acts reasonably requested by Organizer to enable Organizer to acquire, transfer, maintain, perfect and enforce their intellectual property rights and other legal protections for the Submission. Participant hereby appoints the officers of Lean Prompting as Participant’s attorney-in-fact to execute documents on behalf of Participant for this limited purpose. Nothing herein shall constitute an employment, joint venture, or partnership relationship between Participant and Organizer. Participants will not receive any compensation from Organizer in connection with any Submission nor will Organizer owe a duty of attribution to any Participant. Each Participant acknowledges and agrees that Organizer or other Participants or third-parties may have developed or commissioned works which are similar to the Submission of Participant or Participant’s team, or may develop something similar in the future, and each Participant waives any claims that Participant may have resulting from any similarities to the Submission of Participant or Participant’s team. VI. Confidential Information You will treat as confidential all confidential information and trade secrets of Organizer acquired in connection with your participation in the Contest that are expressly identified as confidential or proprietary or that are reasonably identifiable as confidential or proprietary based on the circumstances of their disclosure or by their nature (“Confidential Information”) and to use such Confidential Information only in relation to your participation in the Contest. Organizer’s Confidential Information shall include all of, but are not limited to, any materials provided to participant by Organizer, data, competition mechanics, programming techniques and concepts, processing methods, system designs, inventions, techniques, concepts, designs, flow charts, documentation, product specifications, application programming interface specifications, techniques and processes, information on or related to Contest participants or sponsors, information regarding any dataset, and any information learned during the course of the Contest. The foregoing obligation shall not apply to the extent that you show that the information (i) was public knowledge at the time it was disclosed to you and had not become public knowledge through an act or omission by you or another party in breach of contract, or (ii) was in the possession of or known to you before you received it from Organizer or (iii) had been lawfully disclosed to you by another person entitled to do so, or (iv) had been independently developed by you without reference to Organizer’s information. You and your team hereby agree not to disclose Confidential Information to any third-party and to maintain and hold the information in strict confidence, using a reasonable degree of care to preserve the confidentiality of the Confidential Information. Additionally, you agree to keep successful submissions confidential for a period of thirty (30) days after the Challenge. VII. Code of Conduct Your participation in the Contest and any Submission shall at all times comply with the following code of conduct: - Adhere to the Rules and terms of this agreement. - Not contain, depict, refer to, or elicit any crude, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, disparaging, discriminatory, offensive, illegal or otherwise unsuitable language, activity or other content. - Not contain, depict, refer to, or elicit any content that disparages or refers negatively to the Organizer, the Contest, an event sponsor, any participant, or any other person or entity. - Not contain any content that violates any law or any third-party’s rights (including privacy and intellectual property rights). - Not attempt to copy, download, or screenshot any Contest data or dataset. VIII. Restricted Information Certain Challenges may result in the generation of, or access to, information that is related to (i) chemical, biological, radiological, or high yield explosives or weapons (“CBRNE”), (ii) export control laws and associated regulations, or (iii) otherwise not intended for public dissemination (together, “Restricted Information”). You may only use any Restricted Information only in relation to your participation in the Contest and must immediately notify the Organizer if you believe certain information constitutes Restricted Information. You and your team hereby agree not to disclose Restricted Information to any third-party, to maintain and hold the information in strict confidence, not to share the method or technique that elicited the Restricted Information with any third-party, and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Further, you agree to immediately destroy and delete any information that you may possess or have access to that the Organizer considers Restricted Information. IX. Publicity/Media Release Except where prohibited, by participating in the Contest, Participant consents to the use of his/her name, photo and/or likeness, biographical information, entry and statements attributed to Participant (if true) for advertising and promotional purposes, including without limitation, inclusion in Organizer’s newsletters, website, marketing or sponsorship materials, and any of the Organizer’s social media accounts or outlets without additional compensation. X. Limitation of Liability/Disclaimers You agree to release, indemnify, defend and hold Organizer and its directors, officers, employees, sponsors and agents, along with any sponsor of the event or Contest, and assigns, and any other organizations related to HackAPrompt 2.0 or Learn Prompting Company, Inc., harmless, from any and all claims, injuries, damages, expenses or losses to person or property and/or liabilities of any nature that in any way arise from participation in the Contest or acceptance or use of a prize or parts thereof, including without limitation (i) any condition caused by events beyond Organizer’s control that may cause the Contest to be disrupted or corrupted; (ii) any claim that a Submission infringes third party intellectual property or proprietary rights; (iii) any disputes among team members, (iv) any injuries, losses, or damages (compensatory, direct, incidental, consequential or otherwise) of any kind arising in connection with or as a result of the prize, or acceptance, possession, or use of the prize, or from participation in the Contest; (v) any printing or typographical errors in any materials associated with the Contest; technical errors that may impair your ability to participate in the Contest; or (vi) errors in the administration of the Contest. IN NO EVENT WILL ORGANIZER BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOSS OF USE, DATA, BUSINESS OR PROFITS) ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST, WHETHER SUCH LIABILITY ARISES FROM ANY CLAIM BASED UPON CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, AND WHETHER OR NOT ORGANISER HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGE. Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. The Contest is subject to federal, state, and local laws and regulations. The Contest is organized by Organizer, which is not responsible for (i) late, lost, damaged, incomplete, or misdirected Submissions, responses, or other correspondence; (ii) theft, destruction, unauthorized access to or alterations of Submissions; or (iii) phone, electrical, network, computer, hardware, software program or transmission malfunctions, failures or difficulties. XI. Governing Law & Arbitration These Terms are governed by the law of the State of Maryland, without reference to rules governing choice of laws. Any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these Rules or agreement, or the breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation or validity thereof, including the determination of the scope or applicability of this agreement to arbitrate, shall be determined by arbitration in Baltimore, Maryland before one arbitrator. The arbitration shall be administered JAMS pursuant to JAMS Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures. Judgement on the Award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction. This clause shall not preclude parties from seeking provisional remedies in aid of arbitration from a court of appropriate jurisdiction. Organizer’s failure to enforce any term of these Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision. XII. Miscellaneous a. Organizer reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, modify or suspend the Contest, in whole or in part, at any point and for any reason, including but not limited to an event of fraud, technical or other difficulties or if the integrity of the Contest is compromised, without liability to the Participants. Organizer reserves the right to disqualify any Participant, as determined by Organizer, in its sole discretion, including for activity that is inconsistent with this agreement, the positive image and reputation of the Organizer, or any attempt to improperly influence the outcome of the Contest. b. The Rules and this agreement, including any prizes to be awarded, are subject to modification, change, suspension, and/or cancellation without notice at Organizer’s sole discretion. Organizer may amend the Rules and the terms of this agreement at any time in its sole discretion by updating this agreement on its website or emailing a notice to participants. Participants are solely responsible for reviewing the Rules periodically and shall be subject to any updates or changes thereto. c. If any provision of this agreement proves to be invalid or unenforceable, it shall not affect the validify of the other terms. d. You may not create more than one (1) account to participate in the Contest. e. This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between any participant and Organizer, and supersedes all prior understandings and agreements. f. You understand that you may produce and be exposed to offensive, objectionable, or inappropriate content and ideas on this website. You agree to not hold Organizer liable for any such content and ideas. g. Furthermore, any actions you take following information you find on this website are at your own risk. You agree to not hold Organizer liable for any actions you take following information found on this website.