Elon Musk’s Legal Case Against OpenAI is Something We Cannot Expect From The Owner of “Tesla”
Elon Musk filed a lawsuit last week against Open AI and its CEO Sam Altman saying that the original goal of the company in creating Artificial intelligence technology was to make a profit instead of human benefits. He claims that Sam Altman is pretending to run a non-profit organization while he is making a lot of money using AI technology.
Elon Musk’s case against OpenAI “set the founding agreement aflame” in 2023 when it released its most powerful language model GPT-4 as essentially a Microsoft product, the lawsuit alleged.
In reply to this lawsuit, openAI has given a statement that “Musk wanted the company to merge with electric vehicle maker Tesla, and he forwarded an email that said the startup should “attach to Tesla as its cash cow”.
The top executives of OpenAI are now rejecting many big claims filed by Musk in his lawsuit. OpenAI is now intending to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Musk and his lawyers.
Musk has allinged, that OpenAI has broken the “breach of contract”, which does not exist. As per the sources, previously Elon Musk and the co-founder of OpenAI have agreed to work together on AGI for the benefit of humanity. Later on for some reason they both had not come together to work on the same. OpenAI is now a form of generative AI while Musk has launched their own AI start-up, xAI, which he launched back the last July.
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“We’re sad that it’s come to this with someone whom we’ve deeply admired—someone who inspired us to aim higher, then told us we would fail, started a competitor, and then sued us when we started making meaningful progress towards OpenAI’s mission without him,” OpenAI said.
Sources are saying that Musk made an exit from OpenAI in 2018 saying that he wants to focus on the Tesla Project. However, he has not commented anything on his exit from openAI but surely asked OpenAI to increase its development speed.
Now Elon Musk’s case against OpenAI, is seems nothing but truly a bad move by the owner of Tesla. It seems like a waste of time, to file a lawsuit against breaking up a contract that does not even exist. However, the company has now published an email conversation from 2016 in which Sutskever said, “As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open,” and that “it’s totally OK to not share the science.” Musk replied: “Yup.”
In their statement, OpenAI also said that Musk was looking for “absolute control” by merging it with Tesla.
Even some sources are saying Elon Musk’s case against OpenAI is nothing but looks like a question paper for a Law student in the first year. Additionally, some are also saying that Musk has showcased a high interest in generative AI. “Musk, who has previously called AI a “double-edged sword,” was among experts and executives who last year called, an open new tab for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4, citing great risks to humanity and society.”- As per the sources.
