Argon leaks its reasoning wholesale — open models inherit the least-protected frontier styles
scaling01 · x · 2026-10-14
scaling01 doubles down on a prediction: future open models will adopt the style of whichever frontier model has the weakest distillation protections. Evidence: open-weights model Argon is "incredibly cooked" — it often doesn't reason at all, or leaks its entire chain of thought as plain text, suggesting it distilled reasoning behavior straight from an under-protected frontier model.
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