Mark Chen
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OpenAI says its researchers and agents did not access Buckmaster and Alpöge's unpublished work for the project.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
Explicit denial that humans or agents accessed user data for the effort, while affirming broader use of de-identified data and feedback.
Why we used this label
Narrow factual counter-position; does not eliminate the company's caveat about general training data.