The battle between Musk and Altman finally goes to court

Musk is trying to force OpenAI to stick to its original mission of "benefiting humanity."

Author | Lian Ran

Editor | Zheng Xuan

Musk is at odds with OpenAI again. This time, Musk is not just forwarding the video to talk about it, but asking OpenAI to make real money compensation. The claims include breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and unfair business practices. In addition, he also asked OpenAI to resume open source , continue to develop in the direction of "benefiting mankind rather than profit".

In response, OpenAI “categorically disagrees” with the lawsuit filed by Musk.

According to Bloomberg, citing an internal OpenAI memo, The company’s chief strategy officer Jason Kwon refuted Musk’s statement that OpenAI has become a “de facto subsidiary” of Microsoft and suggested that Musk’s accusation may In another memo obtained by Bloomberg, Altman called Musk his hero and said he misses the man he knew "by building better things." A person who competes with others based on his or her skills.”

Kwon stated in the memo that the company’s mission is to “ensure that AGI benefits all mankind.” He also said that OpenAI is independent and competes directly with Microsoft. In addition, Kwon mentioned that the company is cooperating with government agencies' investigations, which may be related to the company's board of directors briefly ousting CEO Altman last November.

On the X platform, Altman found a 2019 tweet, revisited the “anytime” content and added a saluting emoji at the end. He responded to Musk in an "elegant" way, saying "it's disgusting to see so many people against Tesla. You should be on the side of climate and innovation, not just speculation to make money."

Also, history proves that betting against Elon is usually a mistake...the best product usually wins. 》

Image source: A new peak. On February 18, three days after the release of Sora, Musk commented on OpenAI’s achievements on Real World Video for about a year.” He forwarded a video of Tesla’s Autopilot Director introducing AI simulated driving, demonstrating Tesla AI’s technology in generating multi-angle driving scenarios.

But it’s hard to tell whether these criticisms are simply because

OpenAI is increasingly turning into a company from the non-profit organization he co-founded, or whether it is because of its relationship with Tesla potential competition. Shortly after the above comments, he stated on Shortly thereafter, he took OpenAI to court to convert it back into a nonprofit. 01,

OpenAI, from benefiting mankind to a closed-source subsidiary of Microsoft? "OpenAI has transformed into a de facto closed-source subsidiary of Microsoft, the world's largest technology company," Musk's lawyers wrote in a filing in a San Francisco court on Thursday. road.

According to the US Court News Service CNS, Musk filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday, claiming that OpenAI and its CEO Altman violated an agreement reached when the company was founded to promote artificial intelligence. Technology develops in a direction that benefits humanity rather than profit.

Musk filed claims against OpenAI, including breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and unfair business practices, and demanded that the company return to open source. In addition, he requested an injunction to prevent OpenAI, its president Gregory Brockman and CEO Sam Altman (co-defendants in the case) and Microsoft from obtaining legal benefits from the case. Profit from the company’s artificial general intelligence technology (AGI).

Much of the lawsuit concerns Microsoft's significant impact on OpenAI and its own economic position. Musk has previously threatened to sue Microsoft, accusing it of stealing content from his social media company X to train Microsoft's artificial intelligence tools.

The content of this lawsuit mainly focuses on the following points:

The risks of AGI

• The founder of OpenAI, Inc. Agreement

• Violation of Founding Agreement in 2023

• Musk is worried that AGI will fall into the wrong hands

• Musk played a key role in getting OpenAI off the ground

• Altman and Brockman have repeatedly reiterated the founding agreement

• OpenAI’s corporate structure continues to change

• The development of OpenAI technology - from AI to AGI

Musk said in the lawsuit, "To this day, OpenAI's website still claims that its charter is to ensure that AGI benefits all mankind. However, in fact, OpenAI has transformed into the world's largest technology company-Microsoft A closed source subsidiary. Under the leadership of the new board of directors, it is not only developing, but actually improving AGI, but the goal is no longer to benefit mankind, but to maximize Microsoft's profits."

Musk pointed out that GPT-4, released by OpenAI in 2023, already has reasoning capabilities beyond the average human level. During this period, "Mr. Altman made OpenAI completely violate its ultimate mission and historical practice, and no longer strive for Open its technology and knowledge to the public", and said, "The internal details of GPT-4 are only known by OpenAI; as for the information and beliefs, only Microsoft knows. Therefore, GPT-4 is now actually the opposite of 'open artificial intelligence'", Ma "It became closed for business reasons, and Microsoft would not be able to make a fortune selling GPT-4 to the public if OpenAI made the technology available to the public for free, as it once demanded of itself," Schneider said in the lawsuit. ”

Musk said that Although GPT-4 was developed by OpenAI using the contributions of the plaintiff and others, the original purpose was to benefit mankind, but Now it has effectively become Microsoft's proprietary algorithm and is integrated into its Office software suite, "as a proprietary technology that maximizes profits for the world's largest companies."

Musk also talked about Altman's firing as CEO in 2023 and his subsequent reinstatement. Musk said Altman's ouster prompted Microsoft to step in and force the resignations of board members who were trying to oust him. Additionally, the current board members are no longer scientists and researchers who support and understand this technology.

"OpenAI's original well-designed non-profit structure has now been replaced by a purely profit-oriented CEO and a board of directors who are not good at AGI and AI public policy. The board of directors now even has a dedicated Observer seat reserved for Microsoft," Musk said.

02, AGI, an existential threator a source of profit and power?

Musk was one of the co-founders of OpenAI, which at that time was a non-profit organization dedicated to safely building AGI - an AI that can have the same level of intelligence as humans or even higher. AI. Musk claims Altman and Brockman convinced him to help found and fund the startup in 2015 with the promise that it would be a nonprofit focused on countering competitive threats from Google.

In 2018, Musk left OpenAI’s board of directors. In March 2019, OpenAI established a for-profit unit, OpenAI LP (later became OpenAI Global, LLC), a move that allowed OpenAI to raise billions of dollars in external investment and acquire some of the attributes of a technology startup, such as Ability to provide equity incentives to employees.

The situation started to change from this point on. It is through this unit that Microsoft invested about $13 billion in OpenAI, an investment that is currently under scrutiny from competition regulators in the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom.

The indictment shows that between 2016 and September 2020, Musk donated a total of more than $44 million to OpenAI. He also rented the company’s initial office space in San Francisco and paid monthly Cost; Musk personally participated in the recruitment of Google's top research scientist Ilya Sutskever as the chief scientist of OpenAI.

The lawsuit adds that the new board brought in after Altman's reinstatement does not have the expertise to determine whether the company has achieved AGI, so Musk is asking the court to rule on artificial intelligence systems such as GPT-4 and others The advanced models being developed do constitute AGI beyond the license agreement, and if the court finds that OpenAI is now operating for private benefit, Musk had previously intended to fund its public benefit research. Donations given are subject to accounting and a return of these donations may be requested. In addition, Musk has previously said that he has been offered a stake in the for-profit unit of OpenAI, but he refused to accept it due to ethical concerns.

Altman was fired by OpenAI’s former board of directors in November, which said it was trying to defend the company’s mission of developing artificial intelligence that benefits humanity. Altman subsequently announced that he would join Microsoft as the new head of Microsoft's artificial intelligence division, but soon Altman returned to OpenAI with a new initial board of directors. The suit said the series of changes demonstrated Microsoft's "significant influence" over the company. Musk said the conflict between the board and Altman stemmed from the development of GPT-4 and the potential next iteration of AGI technology, which he believed could endanger public safety.

However, the lawsuit filed by Musk did not name Microsoft as a defendant, but Microsoft has had exclusive licensing rights to the OpenAI GPT-3 language model since 2020. To protect its exclusive licensing status, Microsoft claims that GPT-4 has not yet achieved artificial general intelligence (AGI). In addition, Microsoft President Brad Smith stated this week that although Microsoft has a close cooperative relationship with OpenAI, "Microsoft does not control OpenAI."

"Some like Musk see AGI as an existential threat, while others see AGI as a source of profit and power," the lawsuit states. But in July last year, Musk also announced the launch of his own artificial intelligence company xAI, so "this case was filed to force OpenAI to abide by the founding agreement and return to its mission of developing AGI for the benefit of humanity, not for the individual defendants." and the interests of the world’s largest technology companies”, is that really the case?

Reference link:

• https://www.courthousenews.com/elon-musk-sues-openai-over- ai-threat/ ,CNS

• https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/musk-v-altman- openai-complaint-sf.pdf , CNS

• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/01/elon-musk-sues -open-ai-profit-power-microsoft-sam-altman, theGuardian

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