OpenAI Threatens to Ban Users Who Probe Its ‘Strawberry’ AI Models

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Since the company launched its Strawberry AI model family last week, touting so-called reasoning abilities with o1-preview and o1-mini, OpenAI has been sending out warning emails and threats of bans to any user who tries to probe how the model works...

Unlike previous AI models from OpenAI, such as GPT-4o, the company trained o1 specifically to work through a step-by-step problem-solving process before generating an answer..

However, by design, OpenAI hides the raw chain of thought from users, instead presenting a filtered interpretation created by a second AI model...

In a post titled Learning to Reason With LLMs on OpenAI's blog, the company says that hidden chains of thought in AI models offer a unique monitoring opportunity, allowing them to "read the mind" of the model and understand its so-called thought process..

Exposing o1's raw chain of thought would be a bonanza of training data for competitors to train o1-like "reasoning" models upon.. Willison believes it's a loss for community transparency that OpenAI is keeping such a tight lid on the inner workings of o1..

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