User confronts OpenAI: did you threaten authors to remove Levent from a paper?
james_mtc · x · 2026-09-09
A user publicly confronted OpenAI on X: "If it was so unlikely, why did you feel the need to threaten Tristan and ask him to take Levent off the paper?" The post points to a controversy over OpenAI pressuring paper authors to remove a co-author, implying the company tried to influence academic output unfavorable to it. Details of the paper and OpenAI's response are not included in the post itself.
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