Musk Concludes Testimony At OpenAI Trial

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Elon Musk wrapped up his testimony on Thursday as the trial in his lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman continued into its fourth day. OpenAI's attorney, William Savitt, cross-examined Musk in the morning. He asked Musk about the capped nature of Microsoft's investments in OpenAI, his involvement in negotiations about the company's structure, and whether he knew about the OpenAI nonprofit's recent initiatives. "I don't know what's going on at OpenAI," Musk testified.

Savitt also asked Musk about his competing artificial intelligence startup, xAI. While not the main focus of the case, Musk said it is "partly" true that xAI used some of OpenAI's models to train its own models, a process known as distilling. Musk also suggested that xAI has used OpenAI's technology to help build the company. Musk sued OpenAI, Altman, and Greg Brockman, the company's president, in 2024, alleging that they went back on their commitments to keep the artificial intelligence company a nonprofit and to follow its charitable mission. He claims that the roughly $38 million he donated to seed OpenAI, a company he co-founded, was used for unauthorized commercial purposes.

Once Musk wrapped up his testimony after roughly two hours of questioning on Thursday, his attorneys called Jared Birchall, who manages Musk's billions at his family office, as their next witness. Birchall testified about his knowledge of Musk's specific donations to OpenAI. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers oversaw the proceedings from federal court in Oakland, California. The trial will resume on Monday. Recap:
Elon Musk Says OpenAI Betrayed Him, Clashes With Company's Attorney (Day Three)
Musk Testifies OpenAI Was Created As Nonprofit To Counter Google (Day Two)
Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Head To Court (Day One)

(Illegal) Alien vs Predator

[Mr. Dollar Ton]

Whichever wins, everyone else loses :)

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[dfghjk]

and why are we to think "a Chinese dude living and Singapore" is a problem? and why would "a Chinese dude living and Singapore" want to be an "illegal alien"? Perhaps Singapore doesn't allow wide stances in public restrooms that Mr Stalkerbot uses for hookups?

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[dfghjk]

Ease up on the reality, we all need to believe that both will lose! We can at least hope the appeals will be costly.

TF

[ArmoredDragon]

This is the OJ trial, slashdot edition.

Re: You are a right wing extremist and mark

[dfarrow]

You keep spamming this copy-pasted comment for the last few years. Low-effort and low-energy.

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[dfghjk]

AI is a fraud, without the sociopaths at the top it would remain a research topic. They aren't the engineers, but engineers aren't the important part.

Also, hurting AI is desperately needed. AI must have fundamental respect for human values, it does not and it will not as long as sociopaths are in charge.

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[drinkypoo]

AI must have fundamental respect for human values, it does not and it will not as long as sociopaths are in charge.

It does not and it will not as long as it doesn't even have the concept of having the concept of something like respect. It doesn't have concepts. It has a model which it churns through and poops out patterns.

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[necro81]

Somebody could have assassinated the assholes involved. Wouldn't hurt AI any. The people in that court room are not the engineers.

I guess the AI isn't quite smart enough to figure that one out.

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[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

It wouldn't now. I agree. But I think Sam deserves some.. Credit for this current AI cycle. He was the one bold enough to unlesh LLM's and market them to the masses. Google was too timid to do it. Ironically, Open Ai was supposed to prevent this from happening. But Sam is Sam, asking him to show restraint is cuckoo bonkers, its like asking Epstein to start a preteen modeling agency so they don't get trafficked. It would take some one stupid as Musk to put him in charge.