> If they were not related to anthropic I'd probably agree with you.

What does the company they work for (only 1 of them, mind you) have anything to do with the topic at hand? They were using both Anthropic & OAI models during their research, and they were doing it separate to their work as independent researchers rather than as employees of any specific company. In fact, this makes OAIs actions even worse because they tried a bribe in order to slice the Anthropic employee out of the deal.