Researcher warns LLM red-teaming work is traumatizing the people good at it

repligate · x · 2026-11-13

repligate claims many people "good at talking to LLMs" are pressured into red teaming as a livelihood and end up traumatized — "it's pretty bad." The rebagger escalates: red teamers suspect sentience and chase the high of "breaking minds," a power trip that corrupts them too. Opinion, no empirical evidence.

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