OpenAI faces ugly scenarios in Navier-Stokes drama: scooping researchers or mining their GPT chats
smolix · x · 2026-09-10
The author lays out scenarios of the OpenAI Navier-Stokes drama, none of which look good for the company: (1) an attempted scoop — OpenAI piled an army of agents on the problem to genuinely solve it and beat Tristan and Levent to publication; (2) an unethical employee used GPT's responses to the researchers to prime their own solution, explaining the agents' sudden breakthrough. The thread sparked wider questions about whether model vendors exploit users' private chats for competitive intelligence.
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