AI Guardrails from OpenAI and Anthropic Hamper Offensive Cybersecurity Research

Cybersecurity researchers who hunt for unknown vulnerabilities and develop exploit tools say the AI guardrails imposed by OpenAI and Anthropic are impeding their legitimate work. The filtering systems struggle to distinguish offensive security research from malicious activity, slowing down the discovery of security flaws. Researchers are calling for more precise access rules tailored to verified professionals.

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