OpenAI Says Moonshot-Linked Users Tried to Extract Protected GPT Reasoning

OpenAI said it disrupted a coordinated campaign that attempted to extract protected reasoning from its models, attributing a core cluster of the activity to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of Kimi. The company said the activity began in early July, peaked on July 24 and 25 with 16,000 attempted requests from more than 4,000 users, and was fully disrupted by July 28 after related prompt-pattern activity was found across more than 15,000 users according to OpenAI.