The trick: Headline Over Filing
OpenAI says 16,000 requests tried to copy its models' reasoning and names Moonshot AI.
Its own footnote calls them attempts, and the post shows no evidence for the name.
OpenAI says it disrupted a distillation campaign, with 16,000 extraction requests from over 4,000 users on July 24 and 25, and attributes a core cluster to people associated with Moonshot AI.
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OpenAI's footnote says the figures are attempted, not necessarily successful, extractions; it cannot say all operators were one actor; CyberScoop notes no technical evidence was cited.
The twist
The hole was in how providers passed encrypted reasoning, and The Register notes OpenAI built its models on scraped web content amid copyright fights.
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Receipts
- Supports web.archive.org:
we observed high-volume spikes on July 24 and 25 consisting of 16,000 requests
- Supports web.archive.org:
we attribute a core cluster of the activity to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, the developer of Kimi.
- Context web.archive.org:
These figures describe attempted, not necessarily successful, extractions.
- Context web.archive.org:
It is unclear whether all operators we observed during the relevant time period originated from a single actor.
- Context web.archive.org:
This manipulation is not a vulnerability unique to OpenAI’s models
- Refutes cyberscoop.com:
OpenAI’s blog post does not cite any technical evidence or reasoning for its attribution.
- Context cyberscoop.com:
OpenAI told CyberScoop that it was not sharing any additional information “for security reasons.”
- Context thehackernews.com:
Last month, rival Anthropic accused Moonshot AI of stealthily relaying customer requests to Claude as opposed to processing them using Kimi
- Context unite.ai:
these encrypted blocks are fully compatible and interchangeable across different sessions, users, and models within a provider’s ecosystem.
- Context theregister.com:
OpenAI, which hoovered up vast amounts of internet content amid copyright fights, has accused individuals associated with China’s Moonshot AI
- Context theregister.com:
The Register reached out to Moonshot AI for comment and did not receive an immediate response.
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