Inspired by this tweet: https://x.com/loffredojeremy/status/2057911236361179575?s=46
Description
By December 31, 2026, will credible public evidence show that OpenAI, or a contractor/vendor acting on OpenAI’s behalf, paid at least 100 households or families in New York City to install indoor 360-degree cameras in private homes to record routine household activities such as cooking, cleaning, washing dishes, or similar domestic tasks, for use in AI, robotics, smart-home, or hardware development?
Resolution criteria
Resolve YES if, by market close, credible public evidence establishes all of the following:
OpenAI involvement: OpenAI directly ran, funded, commissioned, or materially directed the program; or a contractor/vendor did so on OpenAI’s behalf.
NYC households: The program involved at least 100 private households/families located in New York City.
Indoor 360° cameras: Participants installed or hosted 360-degree cameras or substantially equivalent panoramic indoor video recording devices inside their homes.
Routine household activity recording: The recordings captured ordinary domestic activities such as cooking, cleaning, vacuuming, laundry, dishwashing, childcare, organizing, or similar home behavior.
AI/product development purpose: The data was collected for AI model training/evaluation, robotics, smart-home, ambient-computing, or hardware/product-development purposes.
Resolve NO if these conditions are not met by market close.
Accepted evidence
Evidence sufficient for YES includes at least one of:
Reporting from a reputable news organization with independent sourcing.
Public legal, regulatory, procurement, or court documents.
A published participant consent form, contract, vendor agreement, job listing, or internal document that is authenticated or reported by a reputable outlet.
A public statement from OpenAI or a clearly identified vendor confirming the program.
Not sufficient for YES
Do not resolve YES based only on:
Anonymous social media posts.
“A friend told me” anecdotes.
Screenshots without provenance.
Generic OpenAI hardware rumors.
Evidence of household video-data collection by another AI company unless OpenAI involvement is established.
Evidence of OpenAI collecting video data in general, unless the NYC household + indoor 360° camera + ≥100 household conditions are met.
Edge cases
If the program used non-360 fixed cameras, resolve NO, unless the setup was functionally panoramic/room-scale and reported as such.
If fewer than 100 NYC households are confirmed, resolve NO.
If OpenAI only bought a third-party dataset after collection and did not commission, fund, or direct the collection, resolve NO.
If the program happened outside NYC, resolve NO.
If the evidence confirms a similar OpenAI home-recording program but not the 360° camera detail, resolve NO for this market.
Close date
December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET
Resolution note
The intended question is not whether OpenAI is developing hardware or smart-home products. It is whether this specific claim about a large NYC in-home 360° camera data-collection program is credibly verified.
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