OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk sued the company, its co-founders, related companies and unidentified others. In pursuit of profit, he claims, they are violating OpenAI’s non-profit status and basic contractual agreements to develop artificial intelligence “for the benefit of humanity.”
Suit It claims that OpenAI has become a “de facto closed-source subsidiary” of Microsoft. invested 13 billion dollars and owns a 49 percent stake. Microsoft uses OpenAI technology to power generative artificial intelligence tools such as Copilot.
According to the petition, under OpenAI’s current management, it is alleged to be developing and improving artificial general intelligence (AGI) to increase profits for Microsoft rather than for the benefit of humanity. This was a clear betrayal of the Founding Agreement.”
The suit defines AGI as “a machine with human-like intelligence for a variety of tasks.” Musk claims in his lawsuit that GPT-4, which is claimed to be “better at making judgments than average humans,” is equivalent to AGI and is “de facto Microsoft’s proprietary algorithm.”
Musk has long voiced concerns about AGI. He argues that theoretical technology is a “serious threat to humanity,” especially “in the hands of a closed, for-profit company like Google.”
According to the document, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and fellow co-founder Greg Brockman convinced Musk to help launch the nonprofit and fund its early operations to counter Google’s advances in the AGI space. DeepMind. He noted that their initial agreement called for the OpenAI technology to be “freely available” to the public. Musk claims to have donated $44 million to the nonprofit between 2016 and 2020 (he resigned as an OpenAI board member in 2018). whom TechCrunch Earlier, Musk said he was offered a stake in OpenAI’s for-profit subsidiary, but turned it down due to a “position of principle.”
Muscle certainly has some skin in the game. Since the public debut of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, there has been a battle between the tech giants to offer the best generative AI tools. When Musk joined this rat race, his AI company xAI ChatGPT has introduced its competitor, Grok to Premium+ subscribers on the X social network last year.
When Altman quickly returned to power After the OpenAI board shockingly fired him It is said that he was in November appointed a new group of directors it is less technically minded and more business oriented. Microsoft has been appointed as a non-voting observer. “The new board consisted of members with more experience in profit-driven businesses or politics than in AI ethics and governance,” the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit accuses the defendants of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and unfair business practices. Musk is seeking a jury trial and an injunction forcing OpenAI to stick to its original non-profit mission. It also wants OpenAI’s leadership, as well as Microsoft and other partners, to be banned from monetizing the technology it developed as a non-profit.
Competition regulators USA, United Kingdom and the European Union is said to be exploring OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft. it happened reported this week The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether OpenAI defrauded investors. There are several news organizations He also sued OpenAI and Microsoftclaims that ChatGPT modifies their work “literally or almost literally” without attribution, infringing their copyright in the process.
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