Washington, Oct. 1 -- OpenAI said it has disrupted a coordinated campaign aimed at extracting protected reasoning from its models and using the information to help train, reproduce or improve another model.

The company said the activity was consistent with what it described as adversarial distillation, a practice involving the systematic and unauthorised use of one model's outputs or reasoning to help develop another model.

It said, "We recently identified and disrupted a coordinated campaign designed to extract protected reasoning from our models".

According to OpenAI, the activity began on July 1 at a low volume before increasing sharply. On July 24 and 25, the company observed 16,000 requests using a relevant extraction pattern from...