Elon Musk sued OpenAI, its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, and related companies on Thursday, saying that the ChatGPT creators broke their original contracts by focusing on making money instead of the nonprofit’s original goal of developing AI that helps people.
Musk was one of the first people to support OpenAI. He says that Altman and Brockman promised him that the company would be non-profit and work to compete with Google, which is why he helped start and fund it in 2015.
The lawsuit says that OpenAI has changed its business plan to focus on making money by selling its AGI research to Microsoft, which is the most valuable company in the world.
It’s actually true that OpenAI, Inc. has been turned into a closed-source branch of Microsoft, the biggest tech company in the world. “Under its new Board, it is not only developing but also refining an AGI to make Microsoft as much money as possible instead of helping people,” the lawsuit says. “This was a clear broken promise of the Founding Agreement.”
Musk filed the lawsuit after saying he didn’t like how OpenAI’s goals have changed over the past year. The lawsuit says that Musk gave more than $44 million to the charity from 2016 to September 2020. The claim also says that Musk was the main contributor to OpenAI for the first few years. Earlier, Musk said that he had been offered a share in the for-profit part of OpenAI but had turned it down because he thought it was unethical.
The case, which was filed in a San Francisco court, is about OpenAI’s newest natural language model, GPT-4. Musk says that GPT-4 is AGI, which means that it is an AI that is as smart as humans, if not smarter. He says that OpenAI and Microsoft have licensed GPT-4 in a wrong way, even though they agreed that OpenAI’s AGI powers would stay non-profit and help people.
Musk wants OpenAI to stay true to its original goal and not make money off of technologies created by the non-profit for the benefit of OpenAI execs or partners like Microsoft.
The lawsuit also asks the court to say that AI systems like GPT-4 and other advanced models that are still being worked on are examples of artificial general intelligence that go beyond licensing deals. Musk also wants OpenAI to be forced to account for gifts that were meant to fund research that would benefit everyone, in case the court decides that OpenAI is now only interested in making money for itself.
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The old board had a lot of technical knowledge and experience with AI governance, but Mr. Altman chose a new board that doesn’t have any of those things. Mr. D’Angelo, a tech CEO and business owner, was the only board member from before Mr. Altman’s return who stayed on. “The new Board was made up of people who knew more about politics or businesses focused on making money than they did about AI ethics and governance,” the claim says.
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