Because it's mostly not true. It is likely that it used the professors work, but the professor did not have a solution. It came up with new insights that solved the problem. Even the humans from the professors side said so.

> Because it's mostly not true. It is likely that it used the professors work

These two statements appear contradictory.

I simply said that it may have trained on a NYU professor's work.

Work that the professor did not believe he was releasing for model training purposes. That feels worthy of mention.