OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, has completely rejected Elon Musk's allegations of “betrayal” of its original mission and promised in a press release on Tuesday to ask the court to reject them.
The head of Tesla, SpaceX and filed a complaint against them last week.
Elon Musk criticizes OpenAI and Sam Altman for “betraying” the principles on which the company was founded: it had the statutes of a non-profit organization, was intended to work for the good of humanity and artificial intelligence (AI) programs design in “open source” form (accessible to all, modifiable, usable and redistributable).
OpenAI has received around $13 billion from Microsoft in recent years, and both companies market AI services to developers and individuals.
Sam Altman and other executives from the star Silicon Valley startup explained their counterarguments with supportive emails on Tuesday to show that Elon Musk was not opposed to the idea of transforming OpenAI to fulfill its mission: so-called “general “Building systems. AI, at least as intelligent as humans.
In 2017, “it became clear to all of us that we would need much more capital to succeed in our mission—billions of dollars per year, which was far more than any of us, especially Elon, could raise as non-employees. “For-profit organization,” they explain.
Elon Musk then reportedly suggested merging OpenAI with Tesla, which would have been his “cash cow.”
Faced with the team's refusal, Mr. Musk “quickly decided to leave OpenAI” and said that “he planned to build a competing general AI within Tesla” and that “he was in favor of us finding our own way to generate billions of dollars.” “To raise dollars,” explains the Californian group.
Sam Altman and his colleagues further argue that their company is making its technology available free of charge to countries and organizations “like Albania to speed up its accession to the European Union.”
In 2016, Ilya Sutskever, one of the co-founders, wrote to Elon Musk: “The term “open” in OpenAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI once it is developed, but it is perfectly fine for science not to to share.”, to which the entrepreneur replied: “Yes.”