OpenAI's Roon: Codex has no reverse-engineering ban; TV spyware blocks accidental
RexDouglass · x · 2026-10-26
After open-source pioneer Eric S. Raymond publicly called out OpenAI and Anthropic for blocking paying users from using models to strip spyware and bloatware from their own TVs — arguing such arbitrary restrictions push customers toward Chinese open-weight models — OpenAI researcher roon clarified that the blocks are mostly accidental artifacts of difficult decision boundaries. He confirmed Codex has no prohibition on reverse engineering and the issue is being fixed.
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