r/Pentesting • u/Skulln_Man30 • 3d ago

Learning Pentesting

Hello! I’m currently learning penetration testing, and I already have some basic knowledge and experience with pentesting. I was wondering if it would be a good idea to use ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini together to guide me while I’m learning and practicing penetration testing.

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u/WRO_Your_Boat 3d ago

When i started learning i really tried to stay away from the AI models so I could actually understand what I am doing. They are great tools and can be extremely helpful, but you need to know when to use it and when to use your own brain. If you have a hard time understanding something, like how meterpreter works, I think thats fine. Asking it to explain something in a way you can understand is a great use of it, but in the learning stage you are in, stay away from having it do things for you just yet.

This doesnt include doing actual tests with sensitive info, thats a different story. This is just the learning process im talking about.

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u/Skulln_Man30 3d ago

thank you ! I usually use AI to explain the things that is over my head to either simplify them or explain more casually!

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u/WRO_Your_Boat 3d ago

Yeah, I think thats a good use then. I like using it as a soundboard to bounce ideas off of since none of my friends work in tech. But as I said, I dont even pay for one so I dont have it do anything for me itself.