Practical AI · Thursday, October 22, 2026
McIntyre notes that offensive security researchers are experiencing increasingly strict guardrails on American proprietary AI models, leading many shops to downgrade or transition toward local open-weight models like GLM.
“The trends in the guard rails definitely seem to have gotten more strict. If you talk to anyone in offensive security research, basically the answer is if you're using one of the American proprietary models, it's to downgrade it.”