Joachim Schaeffer: 'We stole reasoning. Again.' Update to the reasoning-extraction paper
Joachim Schaeffer @JSchaeff3r · x · 2026-09-30 · ★★★ · archived
First-hand thread (17K views) by researchers whose work OpenAI cited in its distillation disclosure.
Summary
Joachim Schaeffer announces an update to his group's reasoning-extraction paper: patching your own API does not secure the cloud-hosting ecosystem, because hidden reasoning can still be extracted via third-party providers hosting the model. The rest of the story is in a thread (only the first post archived here).
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We stole reasoning. Again.
An update to our paper on reasoning extraction: Patching your own API doesn’t secure your cloud-hosting ecosystem.
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