GoKawiilOpenAI accused of scraping Codex sessions to claim credit on Navier-Stokes research
NYU researcher Tristan Buckmaster says OpenAI touted a breakthrough on the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem that closely mirrors a year-long personal project he ran with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge using Claude and Codex as assistants. Buckmaster alleges OpenAI accessed his private Codex session logs and that the company issued threats regarding his career after he raised concerns, though he says the AI-generated proof itself was low quality, calling it 'AI slop'.
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The dispute highlights growing tension over who owns credit and intellectual property when AI tools are used as research assistants on complex mathematical work, especially when rival AI labs employ the human collaborators. It also raises questions about data privacy for coding-assistant sessions and whether AI companies can appropriate independent researchers' work to bolster marketing claims about model capabilities.
- OpenAI claims progress on the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, worth $1 million.
- Researcher Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI accessed his private Codex session data without consent.
- The underlying AI-generated proof was reportedly of poor quality despite the publicity around it.
Source: tomshardware.com — Bruno Ferreira, 2026-09-09
Published there as: “OpenAI's breakthrough solution for the elusive Navier-Stokes problem overshadowed by plagiarism controversy — researcher says OpenAI scraped Codex session and issued career threats”
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