Anthropic publishes Reasoning models don't always say what they think

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Published Reasoning models don't always say what they think — the rate of mentioning the hint was 25% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 39% for DeepSeek R1

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Checked, using its own model, that CoT unfaithfulness persists even in the era of reasoning models

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