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Red-teaming data

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Also called Red-Team Data

Adversarial examples — crafted attempts to make a model misbehave — collected so training can patch those weaknesses.

Think of it like

Hiring ethical hackers to break into your building, then fixing every door they got through.

Example

Testers spend weeks trying to jailbreak a model; the successful attacks become training data teaching it to resist next time.

How it actually works

Red-teaming means deliberately probing a model for harmful, biased, or manipulable behavior — by humans, by other models, or both. The prompts that succeed are gold: they reveal real failure modes and become fine-tuning data so the model learns to handle them. It is an arms race, since new attacks keep appearing, which is why red-teaming is continuous rather than a single pre-launch check.

For product teams

How known ways to break a model get found before launch — and turned into fixes.

For engineers

Adversarially elicited failure cases used as safety fine-tuning data to close discovered vulnerabilities.

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