Sep 30, 2026Confirmed
OpenAI disrupts campaign that pulled hidden reasoning out of its models to copy them
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OpenAI said on September 30, 2026 that it identified and disrupted a coordinated campaign to extract protected reasoning from its models, with activity starting in early July. Operators manipulated interactions to expose that reasoning. OpenAI says no encryption was broken and no stored conversations were accessed.
What this means for youCompanies are trying to copy rival AI models by getting them to reveal how they think. Your chats were not accessed, according to OpenAI. Businesses building on AI should expect rivals to try to copy their models too.
Sources
- OpenAIhttps://openai.com/index/disrupting-a-coordinated-model-distillation-campaign
- CyberScoophttps://cyberscoop.com/openai-moonshot-ai-model-distillation-attack/
- Quartzhttps://qz.com/openai-moonshot-ai-model-reasoning-distillation-100126
- The Hacker Newshttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/openai-disrupts-reasoning-extraction.html
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