Clarifying the OpenAI Authorship Dispute: What Tristan Actually Claimed
jachiam0 · x · 2026-09-08
jachiam0 parses Tristan's account of the dispute with Seb: the claim appears to be that Seb refused to add Levent's name to an OpenAI internal result Levent didn't contribute to, and was fine with Tristan taking lead-author credit — not that Levent was dropped from his own work. Read that way, the fight is over who OpenAI would give the internal result to, and the author reserves judgment until Seb responds.
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