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Mark Chen

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Chief research officer at OpenAI, overseeing research in language models, reinforcement learning and multimodal AI.

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Role at the time: OpenAI researcher explaining the company's process on his account

Challenged the characterization

Response to this claim

OpenAI says its researchers and agents did not access Buckmaster and Alpöge's unpublished work for the project.

“Did any human or agent look at user data as part of the Navier Stokes effort? No.”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Mark Chen distinguishes targeted user-data access from model improvement
Why we used this label

Narrow factual counter-position; does not eliminate the company's caveat about general training data.

Read statementDid OpenAI improperly pressure mathematicians over authorship and credit?

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