ActiveFence CEO Noam Schwartz discusses how his company evolved from protecting platforms against user-generated harmful content to helping companies deploy public-facing AI safely at scale.
Topics Include:
- Noam Schwartz introduces himself as ActiveFence CEO
- Former intelligence officer specializing in open source intelligence
- Mission: protect online experiences for everyone everywhere
- Online platforms constantly hammered by various attacks
- Attacks include cybersecurity, abuse, hate speech, spam
- Companies playing endless whack-a-mole game with violations
- Need scalable solution that works across languages/formats
- Developed enterprise-grade technology for sophisticated companies
- Amazon became customer and great partner early on
- Generative AI introduction changed the game completely
- LLMs non-deterministic unlike traditional programmed chatbots
- Same input produces different outputs each time
- AI deployed in customer support, healthcare, airlines
- New risks when models speak on company's behalf
- One bad output creates legal and reputational damage
- Companies need to deploy public-facing AI safely
- Transition affects healthcare, finance, gaming, government sectors
- Building on years of user-generated content expertise
- No specific ChatGPT moment triggered their AI pivot
- ActiveFence was AI company since day one
- Model companies like Amazon, Nvidia asked for help
- Realized their expertise perfectly suited for AI safety
- Staying on top of AI developments is impossible
- Focus on customer adoption, not every new release
- Main enterprise challenge is trusting AI technology
- Unrealistic expectations for 100% accuracy from AI
- Most companies will license existing models, not build
- Security solutions remain independent like traditional cybersecurity
Participants:
- Noam Schwartz – CEO and Co-Founder, ActiveFence
- Ofer Oringher – Software and Technology Account Manager, AWS
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