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It seems like Elon Musk is taking a jab at Sam Altman. He’s not being upfront about it, but it’s clear he’s trying to say something negative.
Looks like Elon Musk is saying that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a master manipulator who plays everyone around him like a fiddle.
In an X post musk compares Altman to that sneaky and ambitious character from Game of Thrones, Little finger, who was always plotting and scheming to get what he wanted.
Musk’s comment came after someone posted a series of pictures showing Altman with other OpenAI leaders such as CTO Mira Murati and cofounders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever who recently left OpenAI.
Each picture had one person missing, kind of like they were being eliminated one by one. So, Musk is basically implying that Altman had something to do with their departures and that he’s the last man standing.
Musk also retweeted a post from another X user that included Altman’s comments from a podcast in May, in which he said he doesn’t need more money and that “If I were to say I’m going to try and make a trillion dollars with OpenAI it would save a lot of conspiracy theories.”
The post continued, “What I personally don’t like is the sneaky ways Sam is doing all this.”
It looks like Elon Musk is suggesting that Sam Altman is orchestrating these changes at OpenAI for his own personal gain.
Musk is implying that Altman is being all sly and manipulative, like Little finger to grab more power and wealth for himself.
With OpenAI potentially becoming a for-profit company and Altman possibly getting a huge chunk of it, Musk seems to be hinting that Altman is pulling the strings to become incredibly rich and powerful.
Musk is basically painting Altman as someone who’s putting his own interests above everything else, even the original mission of OpenAI.
Openai now describes itself as a “capped-profit” company. In 2019, it created OpenAI LP, a for-profit and nonprofit hybrid.
In a blog post at the time, OpenAI said the idea was for investors and employees to get a “capped return” if it successfully achieved its mission.
As most of you know that Musk accused OpenAI of abandoning its original mission of developing AI safely for the benefit of humanity by partnering with Microsoft and focusing on profits. He even sued them for this but OpenAI basically told him to get lost, saying his lawsuit made no sense.
Musk then dropped that lawsuit but came back with another one in which he was claiming that Altman and Brockman tricked him. He is saying they took advantage of his worries about AI safety to manipulate him somehow.
It seems like this is more than just a disagreement about AI safety; it is getting personal now. It could be that Musk feels betrayed by Altman and Brockman, like they used him and then pushed him out.
