- By Ashish Singh
- Mon, 05 Aug 2024 07:17 PM (IST)
- Source:Reuters
Elon Musk revived the lawsuit on Monday against OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, and its CEO, Sam Altman, claiming that the company prioritised business interests and profits over the general welfare. Musk is making yet another attempt to challenge the firm he co-founded in 2015 with this lawsuit. According to him, Altman "flipped the narrative and proceeded to cash in" after OpenAI's technology began to revolutionise generative artificial intelligence.
The lawsuit asks the court to declare Microsoft's licence to utilise OpenAI's AI models to be void. Additionally, Musk argues that the language models developed by OpenAI are outside the purview of the company's collaboration with Microsoft.
Microsoft and OpenAI have a licensing agreement whereby the former invests billions of dollars in the firm in exchange for the latter's use of OpenAI's extensive language models in its computing services.
Musk backed out of a previous lawsuit he had filed against Altman and OpenAI in June, alleging that the two had abandoned the startup's initial goal of using artificial intelligence to advance humankind rather than for financial gain.
Musk's lawyers had requested the dismissal of the February lawsuit from the California state court without giving any explanation. Musk claimed in the February lawsuit that the three founders of OpenAI had initially committed to developing AI in a way that would "benefit humanity."
Meanwhile, OpenAI has reportedly developed a new tool which will watermark the text generated using the ChatGPT and even detect if the text is written by AI. However, the company is reportedly divided on whether it should be rolling out the tool or not.
For those unaware, the watermarking will be able to predict words to detect patterns of AI writing of the model without affecting the text quality.