OpenAI says it disrupted large-scale effort to copy its AI model capabilities

OpenAI said it has disrupted a coordinated campaign aimed at extracting protected reasoning from its models and using the information to help train, reproduce or improve another model.

The company said the activity was consistent with what it described as adversarial distillation, a practice involving the systematic and unauthorised use of one model’s outputs or reasoning to help develop another model.

It said, “We recently identified and disrupted a coordinated campaign designed to extract protected reasoning from our models”.