Elon Musk has revived his allegations against OpenAI after previously dropping a lawsuit, once more accusing the ChatGPT creator and its founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, of violating the company’s original mission to create AI for the benefit of humanity.
The new lawsuit, filed in federal court in Northern California on Monday, claims that Altman and Brockman “deliberately manipulated Musk into co-founding their misleading non-profit venture” by assuring him that OpenAI would be safer and more transparent compared to profit-driven alternatives.
The suit alleges that these promises about OpenAI’s nonprofit structure were central to Altman’s “long con.”
In June, Musk withdrew a “hilariously bad” lawsuit without explanation, which had centered on claims that OpenAI had breached its founding agreement with Musk and other co-founders by not keeping its technology open source.
“This is a much more forceful lawsuit,” Musk’s lawyer, Marc Toberoff, told The New York Times.
The new lawsuit contends that OpenAI violated federal racketeering laws in a conspiracy to defraud Musk and argues that OpenAI’s contract with Microsoft would revoke the tech giant’s rights to OpenAI’s technology once artificial general intelligence (AGI) is achieved.