OAN Staff Avril Elfi
Tuesday, August 6, 2024 10:35 AM
Elon Musk has filed a new lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman.
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Musk filed a new lawsuit on Monday reviving earlier lawsuits against companies he helped fund.
The lawsuit alleges that Ullman and co-founder Greg Brockman violated the company’s founding principles by “manipulating Mr. Musk into co-founding a sham non-profit venture” by promising to create safe and transparent AI technology when in fact it did the opposite.
Musk’s lawyers allege in the lawsuit that Altman perpetrated a “prolonged fraud” against the tech billionaire, describing it as “dishonesty and deceit of Shakespearean proportions.”
The new lawsuit is reminiscent of a previous one Musk filed against the company in June.
Musk’s lawyer, Mark Toberoff, The New York Times The second attempt, a “much stronger lawsuit,” alleges that OpenAI committed fraud in violation of federal anti-fraud laws when Musk left the company in 2018.
The lawsuit also takes issue with Microsoft’s heavy investments in its commercial division, and claims that the contracts prohibit it from releasing its technology to the public, contrary to the company’s original intentions.
OpenAI has previously denied Musk’s claims, citing internal emails from Musk shortly before he left the company in 2018, saying the company should merge with Tesla as a commercial subsidiary.
When the initial lawsuit was filed, OpenAI executives said in an internal memo that they believed the allegations may have stemmed from jealousy over missing out on the company’s recent success.
Musk now has his own AI company called xAI.
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