Outputs of o1 don’t include reasoning traces, so not particularly useful compared to outputs of chatbot models, and very expensive, so only a modest amount can be collected.
It would be more precise to say outputs of o1 aren’t supposed to include the reasoning traces. But in addition to the reasoning traces OA voluntarily released, people have been observing what seem to be leaks, and given that the history of LLM robustness to jailbreaks can be summarized as ‘nil’, it is at least conceivable that someone used a jailbreak+API to exfiltrate a bunch of traces. (Remember that Chinese companies like ByteDance have definitely been willfully abusing the OA API for the purposes of knowledge distillation/cloning and evading bans etc, in addition to a history of extremely cutthroat tactics that FANG would blanch at, so it’s a priori entirely plausible that they would do such things.)
I don’t believe DeepSeek has done so, but it is technically possible. (Regardless of whether anyone has done so, it is now partially moot given that r1 traces in the DS paper, and based on third party reports thus far, work so well for distillation so everyone can kickstart their own r1-clone with r1 reasoning traces and work from there. There may be more reason to try to exfiltrate o3+ traces, but OA may also decide to not bother, as users are claiming to value and/or enjoy reading the raw traces, and since the secret & capability is out, maybe there’s not much point in hiding them any longer.)
It would be more precise to say outputs of o1 aren’t supposed to include the reasoning traces. But in addition to the reasoning traces OA voluntarily released, people have been observing what seem to be leaks, and given that the history of LLM robustness to jailbreaks can be summarized as ‘nil’, it is at least conceivable that someone used a jailbreak+API to exfiltrate a bunch of traces. (Remember that Chinese companies like ByteDance have definitely been willfully abusing the OA API for the purposes of knowledge distillation/cloning and evading bans etc, in addition to a history of extremely cutthroat tactics that FANG would blanch at, so it’s a priori entirely plausible that they would do such things.)
I don’t believe DeepSeek has done so, but it is technically possible. (Regardless of whether anyone has done so, it is now partially moot given that r1 traces in the DS paper, and based on third party reports thus far, work so well for distillation so everyone can kickstart their own r1-clone with r1 reasoning traces and work from there. There may be more reason to try to exfiltrate o3+ traces, but OA may also decide to not bother, as users are claiming to value and/or enjoy reading the raw traces, and since the secret & capability is out, maybe there’s not much point in hiding them any longer.)