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Sep 15, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Codex 'Dumbing Down' Claim Tested: Relay Accounts vs. Temporary Downgrades

The author empirically tests viral claims that OpenAI secretly degrades Codex for relay accounts, analyzing two benchmark tasks — a candy probability puzzle and an SVG pelican animation — finding local Codex passes both, while clarifying OpenAI's documented temporary downgrades target suspicious login activity, not relay usage specifically.