Checked fact 3081 Oct 2026Safety and security

OpenAI says the campaign was designed to extract protected reasoning from its models, with the earliest observed activity in the first week of July.

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We recently identified and disrupted a coordinated campaign designed to extract protected reasoning from our models, with the earliest observed activity occurring in the first week of July.

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Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign
OpenAI · 2026-09-30

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OpenAI disrupted a distillation campaign it partly ties to Moonshot 1 Oct 2026

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“OpenAI says the campaign was designed to extract protected reasoning from its models, with the earliest observed activity in the first week of July.” ai notis, checked 1 Oct 2026. Source: Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign (OpenAI). https://ainotis.com/c/308

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ai notis. (2026, October 1). OpenAI says the campaign was designed to extract protected reasoning from its models, with the earliest observed activity in the first week of July [Checked claim 308]. ai notis. https://ainotis.com/c/308

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