Elon Musk Sues OpenAI
Elon Musk sues OpenAI. The claim that artificial intelligence is not used for the benefit of people and more has been taken to court. Here are the details!
Yesterday, Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI, saying that the artificial intelligence research company betrayed an agreement made for the benefit of humanity since its inception.
In the lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court, Elon Musk said: “OpenAI, Inc. has been turned into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of Microsoft, the world’s largest technology company. Under its new board of directors, it is not only developing, but advancing an ROI to maximize Microsoft’s profits rather than what is in the best interest of the people.”
Elon Musk is making claims against OpenAI, including breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and unfair business practices, and is demanding that the company return to open source.
He also wants OpenAI President Gregory Brockman and CEO Sam Altman, as well as Microsoft, to be prevented from profiting from AI. Musk says that with GPT-4 continuing as a closed model instead of an open model, the work is being driven by commercial concerns rather than human benefit.
Elon Musk:
“The internal details of GPT-4 are known only to OpenAI and, on information and belief, to Microsoft. GPT-4 is therefore the opposite of ‘open AI’. And it is closed for convenient commercial reasons. Microsoft stands to make a fortune by selling GPT-4 to the public, which would not be possible if OpenAI made the technology freely available to the public – as it should. Contrary to the Founding Agreement, the defendants have chosen to use GPT-4 not for the benefit of humanity, but as proprietary technology to maximize the profits of literally the largest corporation in the world.”
In this lawsuit, Musk highlights Microsoft’s control over both the OpenAI board and Sam Altman, and claims that it will prevent them from declaring GPT-4 as an AGI so that they can make a huge profit.
