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I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
The author built a vulnerable application and spent $1,500 to test if large language models (LLMs) could exploit it. The experiment involved sharing the app's details and observing whether LLMs could identify or bypass security flaws.
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