OpenAI is the company that originally proposed and popularized chain-of-thought monitoring: https://openai.com/index/chain-of-thought-monitoring/

So no, Google is not being punished, nor are they the people behind this technique.

Yeah, Zvi calls it "the forbidden technique"

What? You mean the technique they had turned OFF during all training run where the agents they are responsible for hacked huggingface?

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