Musk Lawsuit seeks to block full for-profit conversion and potentially disrupt Microsoft ties. Evidence shows intent to breach early agreements.
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It sounds like Musk is trying to stifle the competition through lawsuits rather using his own AI to beat them them through competitive free markets. This is not good optics for Musk.
Competitive free markets are great, in theory, but in practice capitalism is very much about big players crushing small players, lawfare, bribery, influence peddling, and propaganda. For instance capitalism is supposedly against government intervention and taxpayer handouts, except when those things are beneficial to a favoured sector then that sector is absolutely fine with it.
Except at a personal level for Musk, OpenAI is not just “the competition” but one of his own projects gone rogue. His motivation may be to slow it down, but the case he’s using to do that is something he fundamentally believes in. He created and funded it as an open source non-profit and it mutated into a closed source for profit allied with a rival. That makes it different from other competitors.
I read about this case over on the Zero. It looks to me that Musk will loose this suit over standing. He is not actually claiming monetary damages nor is he claiming any indirect damages (e.g. OpenAI hiring talent away from SpaceX, etc.). This looks like a lack of standing to me and I think the court will agree. Musk could, in fact, be hit with filing a frivolous suit.
Generally, in order to sue someone, you have to show actual damages from breach of contract. Also, my understanding is that he never had an actual contract with OpenAI for the things that he is claiming. Verbal contract can hold up in court. But they have to be substantive, which is not the case here.
I think Musk is getting bad legal advise.
He’s arguing fraudulent conversion: He donated to a non-profit, and the products of his donation got diverted to a for profit. And apparently some evidence has surfaced that this was planned in advance.
I hardly think he’s going to be hit with filing a frivolous suit after the 15th; The judge has decided it goes to trial, that’s not something frivolous suits tend to do.