My guess was that the primary reason OAI doesn’t show the scratchpad/CoT is to prevent competitors from training on those CoTs and replicating much of o1s abilities without spending time and compute on the RL process itself.
But now that you mention it, their not wanting to show the whole CoT when it’s not necessarily nice or aligned in itself. I guess it’s like you wouldn’t want someone reading your thoughts even if you intended to be mostly helpful to them.
My guess was that the primary reason OAI doesn’t show the scratchpad/CoT is to prevent competitors from training on those CoTs and replicating much of o1s abilities without spending time and compute on the RL process itself.
But now that you mention it, their not wanting to show the whole CoT when it’s not necessarily nice or aligned in itself. I guess it’s like you wouldn’t want someone reading your thoughts even if you intended to be mostly helpful to them.