In February, Elon Musk took the ChatGPT developer company OpenAI to court. But now the Tesla boss has given up. Experts had doubted that he would get very far with his allegations.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has dropped his breach of contract lawsuit against ChatGPT developer OpenAI. No reasons were given in court documents on Tuesday. A hearing on OpenAI’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit was scheduled for Wednesday in San Francisco.
The Tesla boss sued OpenAI in February. The entrepreneur’s main claim was that the company he co-founded in 2015 had strayed from the agreed path of being a non-profit company whose research into artificial intelligence was intended to benefit humanity. Now, major investor Microsoft is the main beneficiary – according to Musk, this is a “blatant violation” of the original founding agreement. OpenAI countered that there was no formal agreement that could have been violated.
The company also responded with its own accusations against Musk. He had sought “full control” of OpenAI and the company’s top position, wrote co-founders of the start-up, including CEO Sam Altman, in a blog entry. In 2018, Musk also advocated merging OpenAI with the electric car manufacturer Tesla, which he runs. Musk did not comment on the account, which appears to be largely supported by emails from that time.
A year ago, the AI chatbot ChatGPT triggered an unprecedented hype about artificial intelligence – with expectations ranging from almost unlimited possibilities in the digital world to the fear of the extinction of humanity. Such AI chatbots are trained with huge amounts of information and can formulate texts at the linguistic level of a human. The principle behind it is that they estimate word by word how a sentence should continue.