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another researcher accuses OpenAI of training on conversations and then claiming a breakthrough

I smell desperation in people who failed to actually make those breakthroughs.

If a user uses the product with "Improve the model for everyone" turned on, that's what it's meant to do. Alpöge sure should have known that as an employee of a company whose products use a similar option. But I haven't seen anything indicating something like that played any role.

agree, but it would be appropriate for openai to acknowledge any contribution, especially if they plan on continuing work with the scientific community

Why would they claim it contributed if there's no evidence of it? And as far as scientific papers go, Alpöge & Buckmaster papers didn't seem to have been even published when OpenAI wrote theirs. Wouldn't it be more inappropriate if it would mean making false claims?