Comment by dgellow
19 hours ago
Random thoughts, only vaguely related: what’s the impact of AI on CTFs? I would assume that kills part of the fun of such events?
19 hours ago
Random thoughts, only vaguely related: what’s the impact of AI on CTFs? I would assume that kills part of the fun of such events?
Things are pretty brutal and some categories are more affected than others.
A/D seems to be somewhat less affected.
Brutal as in, heavy AI usage? What sort of categories are more affected?
From what someone told me rev/crypto/misc are the most broken, with pwn/web being more iffy and depending on challenge specifics.
I can't speak on AI usage very clearly (fun fact: just putting the challenge into ChatGPT's web UI sometimes works!), but I think the most egregious is orchestration platforms for agents (with MCP/whatever else) to autonomously solve challenges.