Yoav Artzi slams NYT's OpenAI coverage: cited prompt evidence was just a replication
yoavartzi · x · 2026-09-09
ML researcher Yoav Artzi publicly called the New York Times' OpenAI-related coverage "disgraceful," citing OpenAI's own admission: "we heard someone posed a prompt and it worked, so we did the same." He argues the article's key evidence was merely a replication of someone else's prompt rather than an independent finding, questioning the technical rigor of the reporting.
It's another round in the ongoing clash over how the media covers model safety/capability claims — pointedly partisan, but it highlights the "prompt replication as evidence" methodological issue.
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