Challenged the characterization
“That is clearly contradictory.”
Questions how the company reconciles claiming the result with offering academic accolades to the other researchers.
- Speaker
- Samuel Davenport
- Capacity
- Personal public response to Bubeck
- Observed
- September 10, 2026
- Published here
- September 10, 2026
- Targets
- OpenAI
- Classification rationale
- Challenges the coherence of the credit explanation, not the mathematical proof.
Surrounding material
Full context
Before the quotation
Responds to the proposed distribution of credit.
After the quotation
This records Davenport's 17:55 UTC response. At 18:12 UTC he separately alleged that OpenAI trained on the researchers' data and took their credit; those allegations are not established by this post.
Evidence
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Samuel Davenport challenges the coherence of the credit explanation (opens in a new tab)
Questions why a company would claim the result while offering academic accolades to the other researchers.
Samuel Davenport's later allegations about data use and scientific credit (opens in a new tab)
Later, more categorical post, recorded to distinguish it from Davenport's 17:55 UTC response. His allegations about data use and scientific credit remain attributed allegations, not established findings.