The Decoder· Maximilian Schreiner·· 2026-10-01
OpenAI says it stopped a campaign to steal its models' reasoning, but the trick still worked on Azure
OpenAI says it stopped a campaign to steal its models' reasoning, but the trick still worked on Azure
AI summary
OpenAI says it stopped a coordinated campaign in which more than 15,000 accounts tried to copy the hidden reasoning of its models. The company ties part of the activity to people connected to Moonshot AI. But researchers found that the same attack kept working on Microsoft Azure for weeks, even against the new GPT-6 Astra.
Selection record
Threshold 76Media and individualsFirst 78Second 78
AdmittedSum of both 156 ≥ twice the threshold 152
- Source tier
- Media and individuals; this tier's threshold is 76
- Pre-filter
- passed：OpenAI模型推理蒸馏攻击与防护
- Why it was chosen
- Reconstructs the timeline of the distillation attack and the cross-cloud differences, showing the risk that the same model can have uneven protection on different platforms.
- Same event
A model scores each item twice, independently, against one written standard, out of 100. An item is admitted only when the two scores add up to twice the threshold. The threshold is set per source tier.
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