David Manheim suspects stolen reasoning traces via exploits drive distillation
davidmanheim · x · 2026-10-18
Continuing the distillation thread, AI safety researcher David Manheim speculates that Chinese labs may have been extracting reasoning traces using recently revealed exploits, and could reconstruct them sufficiently well in many cases once they know the model's final response. An unverified, more aggressive explanation for why distillation's contribution may be underestimated.
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