elon musk suit.srt

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It's no secret that open AI is not open based on the English translation of the word.

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Most of their tech is not open source and not open to the public.

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In fact, to use their AI, the only thing that opens is your wallet.

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I don't think Elon Musk would disagree when I say there's nothing wrong with making

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money.

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But when he formed open AI with Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and others back in 2015, it

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wasn't supposed to be this way.

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Its mission as a non-profit was to make AI freely available for the benefit of humanity.

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But according to Elon and his lawyers, their partnership with Microsoft is mad sus and

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straight up whack.

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It can't even happen when they say open AI is giving out some straight up note vibes

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and filed a bombshell lawsuit yesterday alleging that this ain't it fam.

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It is March 2nd, 2024 and you're watching the code report.

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You might know Elon Musk as the second richest man in the world and the guy behind the second

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fastest production car in the world.

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But Elon was also a founding member of open AI when the Charter stated that resulting

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technology will benefit the public and the corporation is not organized for the private

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gain of any person.

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But in 2019, after they realized how much mother effin money they could make from this

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thing, they tweaked the corporate structure of it.

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Open AI Inc. is still a non-profit, but it wholly owns and controls an LLC.

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That LLC controls a holding company, which is a majority owner in Open AI Global LLC,

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a capped profit company, and that entity has received a massive investment from Microsoft.

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And all this is overseen by a highly diverse board, which currently has three members,

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Brett Taylor from Salesforce, Adam DiAngelo from Facebook, and Larry Summers from Washington.

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It may not be diverse in color or gender identity, but people from Facebook, Salesforce, and

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the US government tend to be extremely trustworthy, said no whenever.

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But the structure change was effective.

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Now in 2024, Open AI is the world's most valuable AI startup, with a valuation that

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currently sits at 86 billion.

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It seems like Sam Altman and Elon Musk are friends, like Sam recently shamed Tesla haters,

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so why is Elon doing him dirty like this?

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It's almost as bad as what Lil Rod's doing to Diddy right now.

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It's unfortunate this isn't a hip hop channel, because the stuff in that lawsuit is off the

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charts insane.

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In Elon's lawsuit though, it talks about how Open AI has been transformed into a close

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source subsidiary of Microsoft, and says the new board is refining an AGI to maximize

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profits for Microsoft, not the benefit of humanity.

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It says, quote, this was a stark betrayal of the founding agreement.

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And to be honest, he's got a pretty good point there.

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Elon left the board back in 2018, and he was actually offered a stake in the for-profit

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arm, and to his credit, he refused to accept it.

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And this actually sets him up for a very nice hero arc in this iteration of the simulation.

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Elon has donated over $44 million to Open AI since 2016, and because they broke the sacred

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oath, he now has a valid reason to file this lawsuit, and seek out some kind of remedy.

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The idea that Open AI and Microsoft are one in the same requires some really strong copium

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to deny.

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Asadia Nattella, CEO of Microsoft, recently said this,

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If Open AI disappeared tomorrow, we have all the IP rights and all the capability.

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We have the people.

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We have the compute.

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We have the data.

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We have everything.

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We are below them, above them, around them.

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Even though Microsoft technically doesn't control Open AI, they clearly have an overwhelming

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amount of influence.

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Now, another interesting thing in Elon's lawsuit is that it says models like GPT-4

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constitute artificial general intelligence, and says Open AI is developing something

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called Q-Star that has an even stronger claim to AGI.

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Elon is known for making wild predictions about space and technology that are almost

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always wrong, but one thing's for sure, the discovery in this lawsuit will be epic.

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Ultimately, a lawsuit like this could be a great thing for humanity, but realistically,

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and I'm no lawyer, its probability of actually working seems extremely low.

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As some random guy on the internet, I based that legal opinion on absolutely nothing,

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but Musk has taken some pretty big legal Ls recently, like when Delaware took away his

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$55 billion pay package.

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But Elon is right, Open AI should be open, and Microsoft, the world's most valuable

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company by a wide margin now, doesn't need any more power.

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But as the great John Bon Jovi once said, the more things change, the more they stay

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the same.

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This has been The Code Report, thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.