Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs — Intel

LLM — A large language model — the neural network behind tools like Claude and ChatGPT, trained on huge amounts of text to predict what comes next.

chain-of-thought — Having a model write out intermediate reasoning steps before its answer, which markedly improves performance on hard problems.

jailbreak — A prompt crafted to make a model ignore its own guidelines — usually through roleplay, hypotheticals, or encoding rather than a direct request.