{"id":1664,"date":"2024-03-06T12:43:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T12:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/chatgpt-maker-openai-hits-back-at-musk-criticism\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T12:43:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T12:43:40","slug":"chatgpt-maker-openai-hits-back-at-musk-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/chatgpt-maker-openai-hits-back-at-musk-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT-maker OpenAI hits back at Musk criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI hits back at Musk criticism<\/p>\n

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By Liv McMahon<\/div>\n
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OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, have responded to a lawsuit by Elon Musk by making counter-accusations against him.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Musk is suing the company he helped found, alleging it has abandoned its original mission of helping humanity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He says it is focusing on generating profits for partner and major investor Microsoft instead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But OpenAI says Mr Musk previously backed the idea of a for-profit structure and even suggested a merger with his car firm Tesla.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In a blog post on its website, OpenAI also claims Mr Musk at one point wanted “absolute control” of the company, before eventually leaving it in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It says it intends to move to dismiss claims in Mr Musk’s recently filed lawsuit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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OpenAI also published a trove of Mr Musk’s emails to his fellow co-founders to dispute some of his claims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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BBC News has approached Mr Musk for comment. But he has already responded to the blog post on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Change your name,” he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Musk’s lawsuit, filed in a San Francisco court on Thursday 29 February, claimed that OpenAI breached principles he agreed to when helping co-found the company in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It also took aim at Microsoft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in the AI firm since it established a for-profit arm in 2019, which allowed it to raise money.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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His lawyers argued in court filings the firm had since become a “closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“We’re sad that it’s come to this with someone whom we’ve deeply admired – someone who inspired us to aim higher, then told us we would fail, started a competitor, and then sued us when we started making meaningful progress towards OpenAI’s mission without him,” OpenAI said in its blog.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It was written by fellow co-founders and executives including chief executive Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Musk’s lawsuit had targeted both Mr Altman and Mr Brockman, alongside the firm itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The blog goes into detail to dispute a number of claims made in the lawsuit. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It says that in early 2018 Mr Musk had forwarded an email saying OpenAI should join up with his electric car company, Tesla, to use it as its “cash cow”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“As we discussed a for-profit structure in order to further the mission, Elon wanted us to merge with Tesla or he wanted full control,” the blog post adds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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