OpenAI’s compaction feature, which shrinks a long conversation to save space, could be turned into a way to copy a model’s hidden reasoning out in plain text, security firm Xint has shown.OpenAI’s reasoning models work through a problem before answering, and the service normally returns only the raw reasoning as an encrypted item the user cannot read. The method got past
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