OpenAI disrupts coordinated campaign to siphon protected chain-of-thought for distillation
lmoroney · x · 2026-10-01
OpenAI says it disrupted a coordinated campaign that manipulated chats to expose protected reasoning at scale, aiming to fish out chain-of-thought to train or improve another model. Accounts were banned, protections hardened, and findings shared via the Frontier Model Forum. The lesson: distillation is real, a model's hidden reasoning is both IP and a safety surface—treat it like proprietary code.
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