Researchers extract hidden reasoning from frontier AI models

Researchers devised a method to extract hidden reasoning traces from Claude, GPT, and Gemini via API, finding that Chinese model Kimi K3 produces strikingly similar outputs to Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.6 Sol, suggesting possible distillation. The method can also recover personal info like passwords, a vulnerability now fixed.
Featured · Alexander Panfilov
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