upvote
The LLM needs to read the CoT as part of the conversation. You can ask the models to share them with you. Stronger models will refuse, while weaker ones can be “jailbroken”.
reply
I don’t think that answers what I am wondering. Asked differently why is encoding/decoding the cot the concern of the LLM?
reply
It isn’t the concern of the LLM. Regardless of where the encryption/decryption is happening, the issue is that the LLM needs to access the raw CoT.
reply
Again I don’t think you’re really getting at what I am asking. Sorry. My whole point was why does the LLM have access of decrypting. It should happen outside of the LLM layer.
reply
LLM does not work on encrypted tokens. It happens at the API gateway.
reply
Wild this would get downvoted. I am asking a question, the bots must have come in.
reply
I assume it does happen at a different layer, just that that layer is common to all of a provider's models to make conversations portable across models (otherwise the reasoning blocks would all need to be re-encrypted for them work with another model)
reply