OpenAI responds to Elon Musk with a counter-lawsuit to stop him from spreading false news

OpenAI has announced a counter-lawsuit against Elon Musk, with the goal of stopping him from spreading false news about the company behind ChatGPT. OpenAI accuses Musk of employing bad faith tactics to take control of the company’s AI innovations

OpenAI and the counter-lawsuit against Elon Musk for spreading false news about the company

OpenAI rebels against Elon Musk, and publicly declares on X their counter-lawsuit against the entrepreneur to stop him from spreading false news about the company

OpenAI announces the counter-lawsuit against Elon Musk

“Elon’s continuous actions against us are just bad faith tactics to slow down OpenAI and take control of the main innovations in the field of AI for his personal advantage. Today we have filed a counter-action to stop him.”

In practice, OpenAI accuses Elon Musk of having spread false information about the company and of continuously acting in bad faith, just to take control of AI innovations for his personal advantage

Specifically, OpenAI refers to the new non-profit organization that it is building, in which Musk has never participated in the mission.

OpenAI and the accusations against Elon Musk: AI for his sole profit

In his series of posts on the social platform X (which we remember is owned by Musk), OpenAI has revealed Musk’s true mission

In practice, the company stated that, the entrepreneur always wanted to merge OpenAI with Tesla for the sole purpose of profit. To prove this theory, there would be Musk’s own emails

Here are the words of OpenAI on the matter:

“Elon has never been concerned with the mission. He has always had his own agendas. He tried to take control of OpenAI and merge it with Tesla as a for-profit company – his own emails prove it. When he didn’t achieve his goal, he left in a bull rage. Elon is undoubtedly one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time. But these antics are nothing more than history repeating itself: Elon is always and only Elon.”

The issue of copyright

At the beginning of the month, OpenAI’s GPT-4o was put under investigation, accused of recognizing and using copyright-protected content, originating from confidential material of the publisher O’Reilly Media.

In practice, the investigation conducted by the AI Disclosures Project would have involved several LLM language models in the technique of the DE-COP membership inference attack. Thus, they discovered that GPT-4o was not able to distinguish texts written by humans from paraphrased versions generated by LLM

Specifically, GPT-4o achieved an 82% score in the ability to recognize non-public content sourced from O’Reilly Media

This data highlights the strong probability that these inaccessible contents have instead been included in the training data of OpenAI’s LLM

If confirmed, OpenAI would potentially be violating copyright regulations but also the principles of transparency, consent, and fairness that large tech companies should adhere to