Elon Musk sued OpenAIthe company that founded ChatGPT and its CEO, Sam Altman. According to Musk, the company abandoned its original mission of developing artificial intelligence (AI) “for the benefit of humanity,” but it was replaced by for-profit purposes. The lawsuit was filed under the Allegation of breach of contract.
The information in the lawsuit suggests so Altman And Greg Brockman, co-founder of OpenAI, Musk suggested starting the company with a non-profit open source solution, but this was not implemented, according to the tycoon's lawyers, as the company was currently focused on making money. Another accusation is that OpenAI has retained the design of GPT-4 “in complete secrecy.”
Since he introduced ChatGPT and GPT-4OpenAI, the great language model that powers the chatbot, sparked a wave of AI commercialization in various companies around the world. Microsoft is one of the companies that has most aggressively integrated this technology into its wide range of cloud services and businesses.
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Elon Musk against the restructuring of OpenAI
Elon Musk opposed OpenAI's management restructuring, a time when the Firing Altman as CEO and its quick refund with the support of Microsoft, which has more than invested $10,000 million in the company. Musk points out that Altman, Brockman and Microsoft were collectively responsible for expelling the majority of the startup's board, which had been responsible for enforcing its original mission.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, was also sued by Elon Musk. Photo: AFP
“Altman carefully selected a new board that lacks similar technical expertise or significant experience in AI governance as the previous board,” the lawsuit says, also noting that “the new board is composed of members with more experience in this “It’s more about for-profit companies or politics than about AI ethics and governance. Apparently they were too big fans of Altman“.
According to OpenAI Inc.'s website, it goes on to note that the company's goal is to ensure artificial intelligence that “benefits all of humanity,” but that it would not achieve that, according to the lawsuit. “In reality, though OpenAI Inc. “It has become a de facto closed-source subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft.”
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Elon Musk, co-founder of OpenAI
Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, but left the board three years later in 2018, a decision for which he openly expressed regret in a 2018 interview CNBC. According to Musk, the idea of naming the company OpenAI was suggested by him because the goal was to do things differently than Google. It is worth noting that the billionaire's parting occurred after disagreements with those in charge.