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OpenAI disrupts coordinated model-distillation campaign, bolsters defenses

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OpenAI announced it disrupted a coordinated campaign that attempted to extract protected model reasoning via distillation. The company is strengthening its defenses against adversarial distillation to prevent future attempts.

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    Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign

    Learn how OpenAI disrupted a campaign to extract protected model reasoning and is strengthening defenses against adversarial distillation.

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