Commercial frontier models blocked attack forensics because they misread the responder
morqon · x · 2026-07-22
OpenAI-class models blocked a forensic attack analysis because they couldn't tell responder from attacker
The post says the team first tried frontier models behind commercial APIs for log analysis, but the requests were blocked by provider safety guardrails.
Why it failed:
- The analysis needed large volumes of real attack commands, exploit payloads, and C2 artifacts.
- Safety systems rejected those requests.
- The providers reportedly could not distinguish an incident responder from an attacker.
The team ultimately ran the forensic analysis on GLM 5.2, an open-weight model, on their own infrastructure instead.
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