i sometimes open a text and then close it and a week later i remember i forgot to respond. so i guess what i'm saying is: it happens. they were probably busy with other things and lost track of time.

Yes. From the article:

> Four people familiar with OpenAI’s model-training practices say the company often runs several different model evaluations at the same time, all of which operate at high speeds and generate such enormous amounts of data that employees sometimes struggle to keep up.