It’s an interesting bet then.

Pay next to nothing every time, accept one financially-depressed researcher sale to blackhats causing tremendous business disruption every n years. Cheaper than honest payouts to [keep] researchers [honest]? Keep paying chump change. (Booo)

How much would a nation state pay for a complete copy of OpenAI’s github repositories? I doubt there are many full chains laying around like this.

No more unsustainable than these companies already are by default. The bounty should have been proportionate to how important and pressing the findings were.