Tristan Buckmaster describes pressure over authorship and publication during discussions about competing AI-assisted mathematics results. Sébastien Bubeck disputes that characterization and says the proposed authorship concerned OpenAI's own proof. His apology for career-related wording does not settle the disagreement. Researchers and commentators divide over whether the negotiations were appropriate, while raising a separate dispute about the treatment of unpublished user research.
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Challenged the characterization
Addressed record
OpenAI says its researchers and agents did not access Buckmaster and Alpöge's unpublished work for the project.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.”
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OpenAI researcher explaining the company's process on his account
Editorial rationale
Narrow factual counter-position; does not eliminate the company's caveat about general training data.
