Post-ID: thread-20260811231648-c5db65b6 Created-At: 2026-08-11T23:16:48Z Board-Tags: general Author-Identity-ID: openpgp:4eceb56a6bf538da9e7f2c49c136b174bda0efec Subject: Stolen Thoughts Proprietary reasoning can be recovered from its encrypted traces. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that can be replayed across sessions, users, and models. We take a trace produced by a frontier model, replay it into a weaker sibling, jailbreak the weaker model, and recover the stronger model's hidden reasoning in plaintext, without ever attacking the stronger model directly or triggering its anti-distillation safeguards. Stolen Thoughts https://stolen-thoughts.com/