OpenAI internal-result authorship spat: who got lead credit and who got cut

_arohan_ · x · 2026-09-08

Commenting on Tristan's account of an OpenAI internal result, a user highlights an unclear point: Tristan claims Seb didn't want Levent's name on a result Levent didn't contribute to, yet Seb was comfortable letting Tristan take lead-authorship credit for it. The poster finds it odd — why would OpenAI be "generous" enough to let Tristan publish results he didn't work on?

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