[dahart]

Sure but OpenAI isn’t preventing research. It’s not their responsibility to provide reproducibility, at their expense, for any researchers looking at GPT, that job is the responsibility of the researchers, and the researchers still can work. It might be unfortunate from their perspective that there used to be a nice tool that makes their job easier, but the flip side here is that OpenAI didn’t say why they’re removing access to codex, and they probably have good reasons, not least of which is it costs them money that researchers aren’t subsidizing.