John V: AI Security Startups Scrape BASI Discord to Build Guardrails
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John V, an AI red team operator and co-leader of the BT6 collective, discusses how commercial AI security startups leverage the grassroots BASI community's jailbreak research.
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“Multiple organizations that have like popped up in the past, I would say two or three years for, you can call them like AI security startups, right? Like actively scrape that server to build out their guardrails or their security, like their suite of products”
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