In the long negotiation between human knowledge and the tools built to extend it, a fracture has appeared. OpenAI withdrew its $10,000 sponsorship from Caltech's Mathathon competition this week after prominent mathematicians accused AI firms of misrepresenting research, generating hollow mathematical work, and potentially appropriating years of human scholarship through training data. The dispute, sharpened by OpenAI's contested claim of solving the Navier-Stokes Problem, raises a question older than any algorithm: who owns the fruit of an idea, and what do we owe the minds that planted it?