Elon Musk withdraws lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
The lawsuit stemmed from the alleged breach of an OpenAI founding promise to prioritise profits over humanity
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Elon Musk withdraws his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman. A few hours after the Tesla founder and the Apple group clashed over the new alliance that is being consolidated between the US technology groups in the artificial intelligence sector, comes a gesture (perhaps) of détente from Musk towards the group that controls ChatGPT.
The Legal Dispute
.In detail. Elon Musk has withdrawn a lawsuit alleging that OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman violated a founding promise last year by prioritising profits over humanity.
The billionaire withdrew his complaint a day before a California judge examined OpenAI's request for dismissal. Musk had accused the company of becoming a 'de facto subsidiary' of Microsoft Corp. in violation of a founding agreement that provided for a non-profit organisation to develop artificial intelligence 'for the benefit of humanity'.
In March, Musk had in fact sued the start-up claiming that its multi-billion dollar alliance with Microsoft had broken a deal to make a breakthrough in artificial intelligence 'freely available to the public'. Musk had said that OpenAI was working 'to maximise the profits of the world's largest company'. OpenAI had dismissed his claims, calling them 'inconsistent' and 'frivolous'. In March, the start-up released several of Musk's e-mails that appeared to show that he recognised that the ChatGPT manufacturer needed to raise large sums of money to fund the computing resources needed to develop artificial intelligence models
The Last Contrast
The fact of the matter is that Musk in recent months is not backing down in countering competitors in the great technological race for the potential of artificial intelligence. The latest game, after Microsoft's OpenAi clash, is the tug-of-war initiated with Apple OpenAi. "If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level," its operating system, "then Apple devices will be banned in my companies. This is an unacceptable security breach," said Elon Musk after Apple announced a partnership with OpenAI. "It's absurd that Apple isn't smart enough to create its own artificial intelligence, but is somehow able to ensure that OpenAI protects your security and privacy. Apple has no idea what will happen once the data is in OpenAI's hands," Musk commented.
