2024-03-01 18:50:00
Elon MuskFoto: Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP / Profimedia
The boss of Tesla, SpaceX and X (ex-Twitter) co-founded OpenAI in 2015 with Sam Altman, who is still CEO, but left the organization in 2018 and is now one of its most vocal critics.
In documents filed late Thursday in a San Francisco court, the wealthy entrepreneur accuses OpenAI and Sam Altman of not respecting the principles on which the company was founded.
The evolution of OpenAI in 2023 constitutes “a flagrant betrayal of the founding agreement”, according to Elon Musk.
When it was founded, OpenAI was a non-profit organization dedicated to working for the good of humanity and designing artificial intelligence (AI) software that is “open source” (accessible, modifiable, usable and redistributable by all).
Contrary to its original goals, OpenAI did not make public the code of its latest model, GPT-4, “in violation of the original contract,” Elon Musk’s lawyers say in the complaint.
The founding agreement has therefore been completely called into question, they argue, accusing OpenAI of seeking profit “with potentially catastrophic implications for humanity”.
“De facto subsidiary” of Microsoft
“OpenAI has been turned into a de facto subsidiary (…) of the world’s largest technology company: Microsoft,” Musk’s lawyers continued.
The release in late 2022 of ChatGPT, the generative artificial intelligence interface that popularized this content production technology (text, sound, images, etc.), turned OpenAI into a Silicon Valley star.
Microsoft has pumped about $13 billion into it in recent years, and the two companies market generative artificial intelligence services to developers and individuals.
“Contrary to the original contract, [aceștia] they chose to use GPT-4 not for the good of humanity, but as their own technology to maximize the profits of the world’s largest company,” Musk’s complaint states.
Last year, he founded his own artificial intelligence company, xAI.
In particular, it seeks the exclusion of GPT-4 from OpenAI’s license to Microsoft, as well as damages.
“Elon is right (…) He didn’t get what he paid for and worked for,” artificial intelligence expert Gary Marcus reacted in his newsletter.
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