The problem is the precedent this creates. For non-famous people using public APIs like this it could mean AI companies sucking up the information and throwing

The problem is the precedent this creates. For non-famous people using public APIs like this it could mean AI companies sucking up the information and throwing millions in compute at it. The sequence for Navier-Stokes was that these researcher spent a year working on it, then they published a possible breakthrough, OpenAI then spends $15M within a couple days to finish it. This was incredibly opportunistic.