> Therefore, after weighing multiple factors including user experience, competitive advantage, and the option to pursue the chain of thought monitoring, we have decided not to show the raw chains of thought to users.
What? I agree people who typically use the free ChatGPT webapp won't care about raw chain-of-thoughts, but OpenAI is opening an API endpoint for the O1 model and downstream developers very very much care about chain-of-thoughts/the entire pipeline for debugging and refinement.
I suspect "competitive advantage" is the primary driver here, but that just gives competitors like Anthropic an oppertunity.
They they've taken at least some of the hobbles off for the chain of thought, so the chain of thought will also include stuff like "I shouldn't say <forbidden thing they don't want it to say>".
What? I agree people who typically use the free ChatGPT webapp won't care about raw chain-of-thoughts, but OpenAI is opening an API endpoint for the O1 model and downstream developers very very much care about chain-of-thoughts/the entire pipeline for debugging and refinement.
I suspect "competitive advantage" is the primary driver here, but that just gives competitors like Anthropic an oppertunity.