Elon Musk sued OpenAI and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, alleging that the company responsible for the popular chatbot ChatGPT breached its contract by ditching its initial goal of helping humanity to become profitable.
The lawsuit, filed in a San Francisco court late Thursday, notes that Musk was approached by Altman in 2015 for his assistance in founding a nonprofit group dedicated to studying and creating artificial intelligence and artificial general intelligence, or AGI, products that would benefit humanity. Now, the company has abandoned the mission and put a heavy emphasis on profits and helping one of its prominent investors, Microsoft, get the edge over its competitors, Musk argued.
“To this day, OpenAI Inc.’s website continues to profess that its charter is to ensure that AGI ‘benefits all of humanity.’ In reality, however, OpenAI Inc. has been transformed
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