Tristan Buckmaster on Artificial Intelligence
Participant in the calls, describing a personal collaboration
“The reasons are below, and they involve our being pressured by outside factors.”
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About this source
Complete firsthand written account, including the September 6 conversations, proposed publication arrangements and the limits of his data-access knowledge. The PDF itself has no verified publication timestamp. No recording of the disputed calls has been located; this is Buckmaster's account, not an independently established transcript.
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Rendered page displays September 7 at 11:58 PM, edited September 8 at 12:08 AM. Date-only retained because the rendered timezone is not labeled.
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About this source
Follow-up asks labs to set aside posturing and focus on what model capabilities mean. Not a retraction of his account.
Before the quotation
His statement announces work with Alpöge and explains why the papers were released before the presentation was fully polished.
After the quotation
At publication he had not seen OpenAI's proof and expressly said he did not know whether their data was used. In a separate September 8 post, he urged labs to focus on the broader implications of frontier models. That follow-up did not withdraw his account.
How this statement is classified
Criticizes the conduct of the negotiations; this does not establish that data was taken.
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- People and groups discussed
- OpenAI, Sébastien Bubeck
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