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I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it


As a part of my work I do security research for various apps and websites. I wanted to see if LLMs could reproduce a common class of exploits I've found in multiple apps. So I built a deliberately vulnerable book review app and spent $1,500 finding out…

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