Elon Musk’s legal case against OpenAI is hilariously bad
by Nilay Patel from The Verge - All Posts on (#6K1AG)
Illustration: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Image: Getty Images Elon Musk sued OpenAI today, alleging a wide range of incendiary things, including that GPT-4 is actually an artificial general intelligence. It's a fun complaint to read; it fundamentally accuses OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, of pretending to run a nonprofit designed to benefit humanity while actually running a regular ol' tech company and trying to make a lot of money. That's a pretty good criticism of the entire OpenAI situation, actually! Someone with some intellectual honesty and a competent lawyer should run at that sometime.
Sadly, Musk is not that person, and his lawyers have figured out that letting the world's richest man rack up billable hours filing nonsensical lawsuits is more lucrative than fitting the facts" to the...