Andreas Thom
Role at the time: Mathematician describing his own experience and ethical concerns in a personal public post
Responding to
Did OpenAI improperly pressure mathematicians over authorship and credit?
"De-identification may remove a name; it does not remove the intellectual content of a mathematical idea."
Why we used this label
He questions the sufficiency and transparency of OpenAI's account while presenting the ethical objection conditionally. This is adjacent firsthand context, not proof of theft or misconduct in the Buckmaster authorship dispute.
Thom describes his own interactions involving unpublished mathematical research and challenges the transparency of OpenAI's data-use explanations. His ethical concern is conditional on nonpublic user research having been used; this post does not establish that such use or theft occurred in the Buckmaster dispute. Thom is the author, not another mathematician who reposted the thread. The page displays September 9 at 06:10 without a timezone; 12:00Z is a date-only placeholder, not a verified exact posting time.