Elon Musk filed a new lawsuit against OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT and its CEO Sam Altman. He accused the company of “perfidy” and “deceit of Shakespearean proportions”.
Musk’s latest attack on OpenAI, the company he founded in 2015, accuses it of putting profits and commercial interests before the public interest.
Musk says Altman “courted him and deceived him” by “preying upon Musk’s concern for the existence of artificial AI”, when they agreed to establish OpenAI as an non-profit venture.
Musk is seeking a court ruling declaring that Microsoft’s licence with OpenAI, which allows it to use AI models such as ChatGPT and other OpenAI AI models, null and void.
He claims in the lawsuit filed on Monday in California that Altman “flipped script” once OpenAI’s tech approached artificial general intelligence and the focus shifted from the firm to “a vehicle for Altman’s and his partners’ personal enrichment”. This claim is based on OpenAI’s partnership between Microsoft and a “proliferation” of OpenAI affiliates that are for profit, valued recently at $100 billion.
The claim is seeking a court ruling that OpenAI’s licence for Microsoft to use AI models from its AI models are null and void. Musk argues also that OpenAI’s linguistic models fall outside of the partnership between the company and Microsoft.
OpenAI and Microsoft have a licensing agreement, whereby the technology giant invests billions in the startup company for the use of its large language model for its computing service.
Musk retracted a previous lawsuit that was filed against OpenAI and Altman in June. The suit accused the two of abandoning their original mission of developing AI for humanity’s benefit, rather than for profit.
Musk’s lawyers had requested that the California state court dismiss the original February lawsuit. The move was not explained.
Musk has threatened to ban Apple products from all of his companies this year if Apple pushes ahead with a partnership with OpenAI. Tesla’s billionaire founder said that he wouldn’t let anyone in his office with an Apple product if OpenAI was integrated into the operating system.
He said that Apple was not “smart” enough to create its own AI, and questioned how OpenAI could ensure the security and privacy of users.
Microsoft and Apple both gave up their board observers seats at OpenAI this July in order to ease global regulators’ fears about the close relationship between large tech companies and a few powerful AI start-ups.
OpenAI published an excerpt from a series of emails that Musk sent in the early days to discuss OpenAI’s status as a profit-making entity. This was to help the company secure the massive investment it needed to reach its goals.
A spokesperson for OpenAI responded to the latest lawsuit by saying: “As with Elon’s initial legal filing which was later withdrawn, Elon’s prior emails still speak for themselves.”
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