Intelligence generated by machines or software. - OpenAI lawsuit withdrawn by Musk
Tech mogul Elon Musk has dropped his legal action against OpenAI, the organization behind the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. The reasons for the dismissal remain unclear.
Today, a court hearing was held in San Francisco to close the case. Musk initially filed a lawsuit against OpenAI back in February. The primary argument revolved around the fact that the organization, which Musk co-founded in 2015, had strayed from its intended purpose as a non-profit organization dedicated to using AI for the betterment of humanity.
Instead, Musk claimed that Microsoft was the main beneficiary - this was labeled as a "serious breach" of the initial agreement by Musk. OpenAI refuted these allegations, insisting that no formal agreement was broken.
OpenAI even fired back with their own accusations against Musk. According to a blog post from the company's co-founders, including Sam Altman, Musk sought to gain "total control" over OpenAI and become its CEO. Additionally, they claimed that Musk pushed for OpenAI to unite with Tesla, the electric vehicle company he leads, in 2018. Musk has not yet responded to these claims, which appear to derive from old emails.
ChatGPT took the world by storm last year, sparking a flurry of excitement about the potential of AI in digital spaces. Thanks to its extensive training on vast amounts of data, these chatbots can write text comparable to a human's. Their working principle involves cutting off a sentence and continuing it as if it were a human.
