"we deliberately designed the product to hide the chain of thought⁠, to protect it from supervision pressure in the long term^2" *Moves over to the footnote* "A secondary reason for this design was preventing distillation. However, maintaining CoT monitorability has explicitly been the bigger priority for us throughout development." I was about to tweet about dishonesty in this post. Then I decided to Ctrl+F and search for distillation Might be the first time this was said publicly through an official channel. I am not so sure about maintaining competitive edge being lower priority than safety. Distillation is an existential threat to frontier labs I wish @merettm posted more. It really increases trust in OpenAI, compared to some other people Now, to pay off the honesty debt fully, they should clear up whether they knew about collusion.wiki already, or any other rogue action for that matter