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Musk is suing OpenAI for focusing on profit

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Translate from : Musk sagsøger OpenAI for fokus på profit
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, for betraying its original purpose of benefiting the public rather than chasing profits.
By Maria
7 aug. 2024 07:00 am
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Elon Musk launches lawsuit against OpenAI and two of its founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. Musk claims that the creators of the famous ChatGPT artificial intelligence have betrayed the basic purposes of benefiting the public rather than pursuing profits.

The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Northern California, describes Musk's case as a "textbook example of altruism versus crying." According to the lawsuit, "Altman and the other named defendants willfully misrepresented Musk and defrauded him by exploiting Musk's humanitarian concern about the existential dangers of artificial intelligence."

Elon Musk was an early investor in OpenAI when it was founded in 2015, and he co-chaired the board with Sam Altman. In the lawsuit, he claims he invested "thousands of millions" of dollars and recruited top AI research scientists to OpenAI.

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Musk stepped down from the board in early 2018, which OpenAI said at the time was to prevent conflicts of interest as he recruited AI talent to build self-driving technology at electric car maker Tesla. The Tesla executive dropped his previous lawsuit against OpenAI without explanation in June.

It was claimed that when Musk funded OpenAI's creation, he secured an agreement with Altman and Brockman to keep the AI company as a nonprofit that would develop technology for the benefit of the public and keep its code open.

"Similar to what we said about Elon's original lawsuit, which was later withdrawn, Elon's previous emails speak for themselves," an OpenAI spokesperson said in an email. In March, OpenAI released emails from Elon Musk that showed his previous support for making it a for-profit company. In the new lawsuit, Musk claims that he and OpenAI's original goals were "betrayed by Altman and his co-conspirators" .

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