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Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing

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Anthropic and OpenAI's publicly available models are explicitly guard-railed so that they refuse offensive tasks.

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And their cyber-focussed models are gated for enterprises.

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A worst case outcome is if only the adversaries have access.Meanwhile, most existing AI cyber tools are just wrappers.

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The problem is that they still have all the guardrails on from the foundation model where they will inherit its refusals.For this project we've post-trained a specific model on a decade of capture-the-flag contests.

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This won't be made available to anyone and everyone, but we do believe that responsible SMEs and midmarket companies also need access to these tools in order to identify key vulnerabilities in their systems; not just enterprises.We have developed two modes that run over a CLI:• Security scan: a read-only audit of your local codebase for...

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