Lawsuit

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OpenAI is claiming that its former co-founder, Tesla CEO, Elon Musk is harassing the company.

In August, Elon Musk sued OpenAI again. He claimed that they tricked him into helping create the company by making him worry about the dangers of AI.

Musk lawyers say that OpenAI’s change from a non-profit to a for-profit company is a classic example of choosing money over the greater good.

Musk helped start OpenAI as a non-profit in 2015 with Sam Altman and others but left the company in 2018, before it became a for-profit business.

OpenAI is basically saying “Oh, come on Elon, give it a rest!” They think he’s just throwing a fit because he couldn’t get his way and now he is desperately trying to make their lives difficult.

They are pointing out that he used to be all for their mission of making sure AI is used for good but now that he’s got his own AI company (xAI), he’s singing a different tune.

They think this whole lawsuit is just a way for him to try and get ahead, and they’re calling him out on it, saying he doesn’t have any real proof to back up his claims.

In response to Musk’s lawsuit, OpenAI called it the latest move in Musk’s “increasingly blusterous campaign to harass OpenAI for his own competitive advantage.”

“OpenAI is dedicated to the safe and beneficial development of artificial general intelligence (“AGI”),” OpenAI’s lawyers said in a court filing on Tuesday. “Musk once supported OpenAI in that mission but abandoned the venture when his bid to dominate it failed.”

The filing added: “Since launching a competing artificial intelligence company, xAI, Musk has been trying to leverage the judicial system for an edge.”

Musk was pretty upset that OpenAI told investors not to support his AI company, xAI, and even went so far as to call them “evil” for it.

He’s been quite vocal about his disapproval, sharing memes and critical posts about OpenAI on X (you know, the platform formerly known as Twitter that he owns). He’s not a fan of their close relationship with Microsoft or their popular chatbot, ChatGPT either.

This all comes after Musk sued OpenAI earlier this year (though he later dropped the lawsuit) and publicly questioned their recent funding round, which valued the company at a whopping $157 billion. He finds it shady that they asked investors to exclusively fund them and not their competitors, including his own.

OpenAI is really focused on becoming a major player in the AI world, even if it means moving away from its original non-profit goals. This shift has caused some drama within the company with several key figures leaving recently.

Basically, it’s a bit of a soap opera in the world of AI, with Musk and OpenAI seemingly battling for dominance. It’ll be interesting to see how it all plays out!