Are you a Codex Original?
- ID
- 29503
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 28 Sep 2026, 8:00 AM
- Fetched
- 29 Sep 2026, 6:04 AM
- Provider
- OpenAI News
- Category
- ai-labs
- Original URL
- https://openai.com/form/codex-originals
- Source URL
- https://openai.com/news/rss.xml
Summary
- Score
- 2.0
- Created
- 29 Sep 2026, 6:05 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_coders
What happened
OpenAI published an intake form titled "Are you a Codex Original?" asking builders, tinkerers, researchers, and creators to submit their Codex stories for "the next chapter of the Codex Originals program." The form collects first/last name, email, phone number, country, city, state/province, a 1000-character backstory, a 1000-character project description, and links to your work. No dates, eligibility terms, compensation, or program benefits are stated on the page.
Why it matters
There is no product change, pricing, version, or deadline here, so nothing in your stack needs to change. The only decision is whether you want to hand OpenAI your phone number and project details for unspecified visibility in a marketing program — Malaysia appears only as one option in a country dropdown, with no stated local benefit.
Discussion angle
Is submitting your build story to a vendor's 'originals' program worth the personal-data trade (phone number, project links) when you could publish the same write-up on your own blog and own the traffic?