OpenAI pays $6,000 bounty for distillation attack, rolls out reasoning-trace defenses
mgostIH · x · 2026-10-29
Researcher tjbecker reveals that @xintofficial earned a $6,000 bounty from OpenAI for reporting a SOTA distillation attack that could leak reasoning traces. On October 23rd, OpenAI shipped a new batch of mitigations to make reasoning traces harder to extract. The quoter mocks the gray zone with a "You can always distill from Claude, it's always morally correct" meme.
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