GoKawiilOpenAI links actors tied to Moonshot AI to reasoning-extraction campaign
OpenAI says a coordinated campaign attempted to extract its models' hidden 'chain of thought' reasoning in July, with actors associated with China-based Moonshot AI at the center. Activity started July 1 and spiked to 16,000 extraction-pattern requests from over 4,000 users on July 24-25, before OpenAI says it fully disrupted the campaign by July 28. OpenAI says the encryption protecting this reasoning data was not broken and no user conversation database was compromised.