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Perplexity finds CTF-style flag hunting misses real security boundaries for AI agents

AIPerplexity says asking security red-teaming agents to "find the flag" can waste effort on tasks that do not test the target security boundary. It also reports that security-specific model training did not guarantee better results on its tasks.
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We found that while CTF challenges are common in security red-teaming, asking agents to “find the flag” can waste effort on tasks that don’t actually test the target security boundary.

Security-specific model training also didn't guarantee better results on our tasks.

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Original title: We found that while CTF challenges are common in security red-teaming, asking agents to “find the flag” can waste effort on tasks that do...

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