Monologue: OpenAI Was Never A Non-Profit

Better Offline

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Technology

4.6 • 687 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this week's monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the early days of OpenAI - and the simmering war between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over its non-profit status.

Suit: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69013420/musk-v-altman/

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0:37.7	Hello and welcome to this week's better offline monologue. I'm your host, Ed Citron.
0:47.4	Better Offline.
0:50.5	And I know some of you are going to say, Ed, didn't you say we'd get a second part?
0:54.5	But didn't you say we'd get a second part? But didn't you say we'd get a second part?
0:56.1	Ed, where's the second part?
0:57.4	It's coming tomorrow.
0:58.6	You get a monologue as well.
0:59.9	Good Lord, the complaints from some of you.
1:02.2	Just kidding.
1:02.8	You're all very nice.
1:04.2	Now, because I deeply hate myself, I decided to sit down and read Case 424 CV 04722 YGR from the United States District Court of
1:14.2	West and Northern District of California. Nevertheless, what I'm talking about, of course,
1:18.2	is Elon Musk's lawsuit against Open AI filed in August, November of last year. There was an amended
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