I’m playing a CTF with my bestie, as one does, and she pointed out that challenges that use generative AI violate the cardinal rule of CTFs, which is that everything that is in there is there because someone put it there on purpose
As a longtime player and author, that is genuinely really upsetting
CTFers: really sit down and think about that! That’s actually bad! Like messing with the laws of physics bad
In all my years of playing CTFs competitively I’ve encountered lots of challs that were broken in silly ways but we figured out those had reasons like “the author used a Burp extension no one else has and thought this was standard behavior”
An LLM just randomly adding shit? You can’t solve for that
