The ChatGPT developer company OpenAI has responded to a lawsuit from Elon Musk (52) with its own allegations against the tech billionaire. Musk sought “full control” of OpenAI and the company’s top job, co-founders wrote Startups about boss Sam Altman (38) in a blog entry on Tuesday. OpenAI went on to say that Musk had wanted the company to merge with Tesla, and forwarded an email that said the start-up should “cling to Tesla as its cash cow.” Musk had no immediate comment Representation that appears to be largely based on emails from the time.
Musk is suing OpenAI
The tech billionaire sued OpenAI last week. The essence of this is that the company co-founded by Musk in 2015 has deviated from the agreed path of being a non-profit company whose research contributes artificial intelligence
should benefit humanity. Now it is mainly large investors who benefit Microsoft of which – for Musk, a “flagrant violation” of the original founding agreement.
Musk, who left OpenAI after a few years, has long criticized OpenAI and Altman. Last year he founded his own AI company called X.AI, whose chatbot Grok competes with ChatGPT – while warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence. Musk sees the difference from other developers in the fact that his AI should look for the “truth”.
Musk saw no chance of success with OpenAI
The OpenAI founders announced that they wanted to have Musk’s lawsuit dismissed in court. It was sad that someone they had deeply admired had now gone to court after they had made significant progress without him. Musk gave OpenAI “zero” chances of success when he left the start-up. Instead, he planned to develop artificial intelligence under the Tesla umbrella.
ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that triggered an unprecedented hype about artificial intelligence a year ago – with expectations ranging from a kind of digital paradise for everyone to fear of humanity being wiped out. AI chatbots like ChatGPT are trained with huge amounts of information and can formulate texts at the linguistic level of a human. The principle behind this is that they estimate, word by word, how a sentence should continue.