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The arithmetic behind that claim generalizes directly to any detector, rule-based or AI-driven, and it is worth stating because it is the crux of why the two kinds of tooling are hard to compare on accuracy alone. If the base rate of genuine attacks among all monitored events is π\pi , and a detector has true-positive rate TPR\mathrm{TPR} and false-positive rate FPR\mathrm{FPR} , Bayes’ rule gives the probability that a flagged event is a real attack as

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Equation 10 · AI Security

Comparing the Main Approaches to AI and Cybersecurity

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The arithmetic behind that claim generalizes directly to any detector, rule-based or AI-driven, and it is worth stating because it is the crux of why the two kinds of tooling are hard to compare on accuracy alone. If the base rate of genuine attacks among all monitored events is π\pi , and a detector has true-positive rate TPR\mathrm{TPR} and false-positive rate FPR\mathrm{FPR} , Bayes’ rule gives the probability that a flagged event is a real attack as

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Equation 3 · AI Safety

Building a Deployment Safety System That Actually Holds

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where TPR\mathrm{TPR} and FPR\mathrm{FPR} are the true- and false-positive rates and π\pi is the base rate. Plugging in TPR\mathrm{TPR} = 0.98 , FPR\mathrm{FPR} = 0.01 and π\pi = 0.0005 gives a precision of roughly 4.7%: more than nineteen out of twenty flagged requests are false alarms, even though the classifier’s headline accuracy sounds close to perfect. This is not a defect specific to content classifiers — it is the same base-rate arithmetic that governs any low-prevalence screening problem — but it is routinely missed by teams who read a classifier’s reported accuracy as the whole story and are then surprised when a human review queue fills up almost entirely with benign traffic. The practical…

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