Nothing ethically justifiable about it, even if you take their word for it. If OpenAI thinks someone should be the lead author for a paper, that person should

Nothing ethically justifiable about it, even if you take their word for it. If OpenAI thinks someone should be the lead author for a paper, that person should have full discretion to decide who the co-authors are. Even if the co-author's contributions were non-technical So no, there's no world where you can ethically extend the right to publish a result and decide who the authors are from the outside.