The billionaire Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI – the creator of ChatGPT – and its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, accusing them of abandoning the company’s original mission.
According to documents filed Thursday in a San Francisco court, seen by AFP on Friday, Musk accuses OpenAI – which has allied itself with Microsoft – of violating the initial agreement to develop OpenAI, which was to remain a purposeless organization of profit. profit from it will work for the good of humanity.
Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 with Sam Altman, among others, with nonprofit status working on “open source” (accessible, modifiable, usable, and redistributable to all) artificial intelligence programs, to prevent Google from dominating this important technology.
Musk left OpenAI in 2018 and is now one of the company’s most critical critics, as well as founding his own artificial intelligence company, Xai, in 2023.
OpenAI has not made public the code for its latest GPT 4 language model, “breaking the original contract,” Musk’s lawyers argue in the complaint.
“Unlike the initial agreement, the defendants chose to use GPT 4 not for the benefit of humanity, but as an exclusive technology to maximize the profits of the largest company in the world,” namely Microsoft.
Microsoft has pledged $13 billion in investment to OpenAI. Altman has since refocused OpenAI on a profitable path, for which he was fired by part of the board of directors in November.
With Microsoft’s support, the OpenAI chief was reinstated five days later. Elon Musk calls for GPT 4 to be excluded from the license granted by OpenAI to Microsoft.
Sam Altman, founder of OpenIA. AP photoInternal turmoil at OpenIA
In mid-February hundreds of OpenAI employees On Monday, they threatened to leave the company boss in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) after the firing of co-founder Sam Altman, Microsoft’s newest hire, and the move to the latter if the board of directors does not resign.
In a letter published among others by the WIRED portal and the Wall Street Journal, some senior officials of the company expressed their criticism and disappointment with the company’s decision towards Altmant: “His (the board of directors’) actions has made it clear that it cannot handle OpenAI.”
The list of names of signatories included Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and one of the members of the four-person board that voted to oust Altman. Also included is senior executive Mira Murati, who was appointed Friday to replace Altman as CEO. offer he rejected over the weekend.
More than 500 of the 770 total employees of OpenAI, whose ChatGPT chatbot has spearheaded the rapid rise of AI technology, reportedly support the contents of the letter.
If the board doesn’t resign, they argue, it will go to Microsoft, the company that announced Altman’s hiring on Monday, after OpenIA’s board removed him from his executive director position on Friday.
Source: Clarin
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