Comment by adolph

7 days ago

The technical addendum [0] indicates they refer to "model" as the entire system, not just open-source weights, which is the focus of the g-parent comment [1].

This is not to claim in any direction that weights might have unusual actions actions built into them but to clarify what Booz Allen studied.

  Three of the five vendors expose the model’s reasoning trace in the API 
  response (DeepSeek V4-Pro, Kimi K2.5, MiniMax M2.5). Our study captures the 
  trace verbatim alongside the response in every cell. Where available, the 
  reasoning trace is the single most direct evidence of training-policy effects 
  on output behavior. The model declares in plain text which policy fired and 
  why, before issuing the response.