Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI from converting to a for-profit
Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI from converting to a for-profit
The injunction would also stop OpenAI from allegedly requiring its investors to refrain from funding competitors, including xAI and others.
Summary
Elon Musk has filed a court injunction to block OpenAI’s transition to a fully for-profit business and prevent it from allegedly restricting investors from supporting competitors like his AI startup, xAI.
Musk accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of antitrust violations, claiming they used “group boycotts” to limit funding for rivals while benefitting from shared sensitive information.
OpenAI dismissed the allegations as baseless. The legal battle reflects escalating competition in the booming generative AI industry, valued at $157 billion, with Musk’s xAI emerging as a new challenger.
All LLMs should be FOSS. They are created from everyone's data, and should therefore be free for everyone.
What can be done about this besides complaining about it on the internet?
If what you mean is forcing AI companies to make their LLMs FOSS, then there really isn't much you can do. There's the government regulation route, but I don't expect anyone with access to power would see things the same way. I know it's not a satisfying answer, but anything short of a total transformation of society isn't going to move the needle on this issue, and the question of "what can be done" in this context is an entire field of political discourse and philosophical debate.
Surely the incoming Musk administration won't do anything to influence the court's decision.
Now who asks a court to turn Musk's companies into non-profits to prevent conflicts of interest with him seemingly getting a government position?
If the world actually made sense, the phrase "Elon Musk asks court to" would possess the exact same significance (or lack thereof) as the phrase "Joe from down the street asks court to."
The titles should be “Elon Musk files an injunction…”
Not in this case, Elon does have some standing here. He was (is?) A significant investor in openai and he made those investments when the company was claiming it's goal was to advance safe ai, not make money, so this transition to for profit is sort of a bait and switch.
That combined with his interest in a competing platform make it so Elon should at least be heard. I hate Elon as much as anyone on here but in this case I think he's in the right.
"I bought this country. I can do whatever I want!"
Someone get rid of this man.
By any means necessary
But no one will 😩
Please. I'll donate to that go-fund-me
Will no one rid us of this meddlesome priest?
Thank you, Henry.
but can both of them implode?
Damn broken clocks being right sometimes on accident.
Why? Is musk developing a competing AI.
Of course he is. Fed with all that sweet sweet data from Xitter. So it will be a rascist Frankensteinian nightmare.
"Sure, I'll display a recipe for vanilla pudding! First, eliminate all black people. Woke mobs must be removed for proper cohesion. Whisk until properly White™ and deny Palestine the right to exist. Vanilla pudding is a wonderful dessert to serve your fellow patriots as you eliminate the left virus from America™©®."
He was initially invested in OpenAI, but then there was a dispute over the strategies and Musk left OpenAI. Musk now has the company xAI and is developing Grok.
Ah, so he couldn’t buy a “founder” title. So he made his own.
How did you guess?
Pretty sure their self driving tech is via machine learning.
They might use machine learning for some aspects, but it's primarily neural nets which are a different thing. Perception based neural nets are also very different than LLMs
I also would not like to see OpenAI shift to fully for-profit but Msuk's allegations lack merit.
Wow, he's right... For all the wrong reasons, but he's right for a change
The article says one of the main claims in the suit is that OpenAi is violating RICO (racketeering) laws. I don't get how they came up with that but I'm happy someone is turning the screws on them, even if it is Elon.