Papers & Research
Stolen Thoughts (paper)
Stolen Thoughts: 704 artifacts extracted from hidden reasoning traces
Researchers from ELLIS Institute Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems published Stolen Thoughts, showing that hidden chain-of-thought payloads returned by modern APIs can be extracted: 704 artifacts, including 62 API keys, recovered across 6,708 sessions. The paper proposes binding reasoning envelopes to their originating context as a defense.
704 artifacts extracted (incl. 62 API keys)6,708 sessions analyzed