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bugbuddy on July 16, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile...

That’s a good explanation for the behavior. It is sad that the natural direction of the competition drives the products to be less transparent. That is a win for open-weight models.

OutOfHere on July 16, 2025 [–]

To add clarity, it's a win for open-weight models precisely because only their CoT can be analyzed by the user for task-specific alignment.

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