Stolen AI Reasoning Could Help China Build Cheaper Rivals
OpenAI, Grok, Claude and Gemini don’t simply help us, they have also been tricked into helping China produce cheap rivals.
Frontier AI generally includes a public API to let developers interface specialized apps with their AI engine. It allows a user application to query the AI and receive a response. The response generally includes the model’s reasoning steps in reaching its response. The reasoning is returned to the model in any subsequent query, allowing the model to maintain contextual continuity of ‘thought’.
The size of this process is kept reasonable through a process of context compaction, where the accumulated conversation history, tool calls, and workspace state are compressed into a summary before overflowing the context window.
Attackers consider any API a potential doorway into a target. In this case, can any secrets be gleaned from the reasoning output, and/or can the model itself be poisoned by malicious input? In August...
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