Friday, March 1st 2024
Elon Musk Sues Open AI and Sam Altman for Breach of Founding Contract
Elon Musk in his individual capacity has sued Sam Altman, Gregory Brockman, Open AI and its affiliate companies, of breach of founding contract, and a deviation from its founding goal to be a non-profit tasked with the development of AI toward the benefit of humanity. This lawsuit comes in the wake of Open AI's relationship with Microsoft, which Musk says compromises its founding contract. Musk alleges breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and unfair business practices against Open AI, and demands that the company revert to being open-source with all its technology, and function as a non-profit.
Musk also requests an injunction to prevent Open AI and the other defendants from profiting off Open AI technology. In particular, Musk alleges that GPT-4 isn't open-source, claiming that only Open AI and Microsoft know its inner workings, and Microsoft stands to monetize GPT-4 "for a fortune." Microsoft, interestingly, was not named in the lawsuit as a defendant. Elon Musk sat on the original board of Open AI until his departure in 2018, is said to be a key sponsor of AI acceleration hardware used in the pioneering work done by Open AI.
Source:
Courthouse News Service
Musk also requests an injunction to prevent Open AI and the other defendants from profiting off Open AI technology. In particular, Musk alleges that GPT-4 isn't open-source, claiming that only Open AI and Microsoft know its inner workings, and Microsoft stands to monetize GPT-4 "for a fortune." Microsoft, interestingly, was not named in the lawsuit as a defendant. Elon Musk sat on the original board of Open AI until his departure in 2018, is said to be a key sponsor of AI acceleration hardware used in the pioneering work done by Open AI.
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Elon Musk is a bad guy. He is a villain. The article highlights his typical spin, but there is no mistake that everything he does is for his best interest. He doesn't care about humanity. He wants this either for the money he can get out of it, or the tech he can get out of it which he will try to turn into money. The only part of humanity he cares about is what humanity thinks about him; that is why he has to resort to being a pathological liar.
He will just leave with his entire team and join MS directly after this.
To be clear, I don't know. I am no lawyer. But I do know that he is a bad guy. Either way, right or wrong, you should argue the content of the article rather than attacking the author.
Damn the verge really thought that site went to the verge of extinction a while back lol
No one should've taken that motto seriously. Ever. Trading is still a thing with money.
If I go to the store, an item I want has some associated value in the respective form of currency. In other words, the store wants money in exchange for the item, in which case ownership is transferred and the item now belongs to the individual that picked it up. The store traded the item for money. We don't call it "trading". We call it "purchasing", but trading is still what is occurring.
SpaceX rockets are not human rated, but are operating at a comparable cost to the Shuttle which was human rated. That's progress? We had a successful rocket stage retro landing demonstration 30 years prior by a different group of people. The concept isn't new and the solution isn't new. It hasn't ever been proven to be economically viable. The engines and stages are minimally "reusable" where the inspection and repair cost is about the same as manufacturing cost. Payload reduction more than offsets any supposed cost benefits (even if they could figure out how to reuse them more affordably). We were supposed to have SpaceX on Mars years ago. What happened? False hype. Where is the fun mars mission with entertainers and fine dining? False hype. Where are the multiple rocket trips per day to the other side of earth? False investment claims. They are highly subsidized, so it is impossible to make good comparisons, but it is pretty clear that they aren't saving us money, especially when the majority of their payload is their own product which us taxpayers are funding.
Why did he leave PayPal?
Why was he kicked off the board of directors at Tesla and fined $10 million?
What did he say about those fake solar roof tiles that he claimed were installed and claimed were a working product? Was that false advertising? Why did it take so long for the tiles to actually be on the market, and look so different than the advertised 'working' tiles?
What about the fake 4 minute Tesla battery swap demonstrations? Were they false advertising and stock hype?
What about the robo taxi software that was definitely coming out 4 years ago which made it "financial suicide" not to order a Tesla? Was that false advertising and stock hype?
What about the solar-powered rapid charging stations? Where are they? What kind of bump did that give to their share price?
What about the car that would smart summon across America? Was he purposely lying in order to increase share prices?
What about the full self-driving videos which employees later admitted were fake. Was that intentional fraud?
What about the hyperloop? Did he know that it was technologically impossible to do what he suggested? Did he purposely create hype for a failed 100-year-old concept just for the funding opportunity and attention? Was that hype? Where did that funding go?
What about the truck which was "this is something we can do today", years ago? Was that stock hype? It was "financial suicide" to continue to invest in rail. What happened? People pre-ordered, waited for the release 4 years late, and now the company says that they are keeping the trucks for internal company use only. Where did the pre-order money go? Who wants a truck anyway which hauls 1/4 to 1/2 as much payload, 1/4 the distance, and takes 32 times longer to "refuel" for the same distance (best case)? Where is the smart driving? Where is the convoy system? Where are all the features which would be "financial suicide" not to have? Where are the charging stations and guaranteed electric price?
The list goes on and on. Look at any presentation, see what he says, and see what the follow-through is. He never delivers. Every time the stock shoots up from hype, but the product never arrives. It can't last forever. He is a conman. The bumps in stock are getting smaller and smaller. People are catching on.
The boring company is non-competitive. Tesla is up against steep competition at a better price. The hyperloop is dead. SpaceX is struggling. And Musk is losing money like crazy after purchasing Twitter and running it into the ground. Twitter isn't a left versus right thing, unless you make it that. Fundamentally, the twitter advertiser thing is caused by a display of a mess of contradictory statements made by poor leadership (Musk), chaos, heavy-handed actions and statements which make your employees hate you and leave, and the advertisers reacting to it all by exiting because they are afraid of massive and rapid instability affecting their brand image. People want to make it a left vs right thing and say that advertisers bailed due to their political affiliations, but really the only reason left vs right is continuing to be pushed so hard is because that is the only thing keeping twitter relevant. Twitter is purposely fanning the flames.
The only hope for justice for Musk misleading people and capitalizing at people's expense, is that he loses enough power that people are no longer scared of holding him accountable. He is not someone to idolize. He is a symbol of corruption and intentional abuse. He is a villain.
I will be surprised if he doesn't eventually go to prison for securities fraud once it all comes crashing down.
Stop defending the undefendable, you're making yourself look silly... ...as shown by this drivel.
We all know Musk is an unique, eccentric individual. But I, for one, don't believe he is an evil man and nothing that he's done so far indicates that he has anything even close to the nefarious intentions that most other billionaire individuals and their clans have displayed to some extent or another thus far. He lives his life to its fullest and genuinely has some crazy ideas that might as well just work, and I don't see how is it a bad thing to spend your personal fortune on crazy innovations or things that he considers to be cool and/or believes on. Naturally, he doesn't have the smarts to pull it all by himself, no one would have, but he does have the resources to get those who do to work for his interests. Neuralink being the crazy innovation, SpaceX being the dream, Tesla being the cool, X being his hunger for ideas. Even ventures like the Hyperloop or The Boring Company, while bearing little practical fruit, have served their purpose to some extent.
I get it that you dislike the guy, he obviously ain't perfect, but I don't think it's the time to be upset about what he's been doing just yet. Many of his ventures, past and future will fail but many others, but I believe the most important ones (specifically: Neuralink and SpaceX) have a future that I sincerely believe that burn bright like the Sun. Brain-computer interfaces that work seamlessly fall well within the realm of science fiction and will be a fundamental step towards transhumanism (I genuinely believe that eventually we'll achieve something like we see in Cyberpunk 2077, with humanity being able to replace and upgrade body parts and cognitive capabilities at will as well as greatly extend our lifespan), and SpaceX needs no introduction: it is one of humanity's gates to space, the final frontier. Where no man has gone before.
Personally, I don't find it too difficult to identify with Elon's thought process. I guess this is my way of saying I share a similar brand of "autism", I just don't have his intense drive, finances, or momentum... or you better believe I'd be spending most of my fortune much in the same way, in pursuit of the unusual and the strange.
Seeing a strange but unmistakable likeness of the crypto boom here. Oh shit, we can put EVEN MORE GPUS to work now. Let's go! Every new chatbot is the ICO. 'Oops, this one generates just black dudes' 'Here's a new one'! 'AI can also shoot missiles, so you need it too!' 'You're not safe without AI'... Etc. I think Elon is a forever in beta guy much like Chris Roberts. Visionary, but hopeless at sustaining his envisioned future.
Also the man has mental issues and now a drug problem. The trajectory hasn't been great. Power and money corrupts.
So far the only real project he's delivered is Tesla. Now, sustaining Tesla is another chapter. A lot of changes have already landed there, and they're slowly drifting away from promises made because the business can't sustain it.
SpaceX isn't sustainable either, its heavily subsidized and would not exist without US gov. Neuralink is a fairy tale so far.