Community probe: original gpt-oss knows nothing of the 'hidden classifier' fine-tune

repligate · x · 2026-11-06

A forwarded discussion offers a tell: ask the original open-source gpt-oss model about certain policies and it has no idea what you mean, while a fine-tuned classifier variant replies promptly about the policies. Both are accessible on OpenRouter, making the claim independently checkable — an unverified but reproducible observation suggesting undisclosed fine-tuned variants may be in circulation.

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