Joachim Schaeffer: OpenAI's distillation disclosure cites our reasoning-extraction work
Joachim Schaeffer @JSchaeff3r · x · 2026-09-30 · ★★ · archived
First-hand: the researchers say OpenAI confirmed the attack paths they reported.
Summary
Schaeffer says OpenAI's disclosure of the reasoning-extraction campaign cites his group's work, that OpenAI confirmed the attack paths they reported and that their findings helped accelerate mitigations. Full update PDF: stolen-thoughts.com/stolen_thoughts_update.pdf.
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OpenAI just disclosed a reasoning-extraction campaign and cited our work. It says it confirmed the attack paths we reported and that our findings helped accelerate mitigations. https://openai.com/index/disrupting-a-coordinated-model-distillation-campaign/
Our full update here: https://stolen-thoughts.com/stolen_thoughts_update.pdf
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