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OpenAI Fires Back at Elon Musk, Plus Microsoft Engineer Sounds the Alarm 3/6/24

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Management, Cnbc, Tech, Faang, Investing, Business, Disruptors, Technology

4.566 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

The fight between OpenAI and Elon Musk has entered a new round. After Musk filed suit against the startup accusing it of prioritizing profits, OpenAI has fired back with a trove of new bombshell emails that puts Musk back in the hot seat. Plus, CNBC talked to a Microsoft engineer that is now raising the red flag about its flagship AI profit CoPilot, warning of sexual and violent content.

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0:00.0

A flood of headlines on the AI front today. The fight between Elon Musk and Open AI has entered a new round

0:06.6

with a startup now publishing a trove of bombshell emails from Elon Musk himself and a Microsoft engineer sounding the alarm about the company's AI tool

0:16.6

co-pilot.

0:18.0

So let's tackle all of it with our Deirdreboza, also Steve Kovac for today's Tech Check.

0:23.0

Steve, we're going to start with you and the latest on these emails,

0:27.7

just how important significant bombshell,

0:31.1

if you will, are they?

0:32.1

Very bombshellly, if that's a word quite bombshell because what these emails show and

0:37.0

these are internal emails between Elon Musk and Open AI executives from

0:41.1

you know 2016 2016, 2017,

0:43.2

basically showing Elon Musk contradicting

0:46.4

many of the things he alleged in his lawsuit last week.

0:49.3

That includes, you know, in the lawsuit,

0:51.5

Elon Musk says, Open AI needs to remain a nonprofit organization

0:56.2

in the emails years earlier he says they need to be a for-profit organization

1:00.7

or let Elon he says let me take it over as CEO absorb it into Tesla

1:05.9

which last I checked is also a for-profit organization and also saying you know

1:10.5

you guys need to raise you know a billion dollars yesterday in

1:14.5

order to achieve what you want to achieve so all of it kind of flies right in the

1:18.8

face of many of the most important allegations here he believes that opening

1:23.4

eye should you know go back to its original mission of being a non-profit

1:26.7

organization but again if you were if you're an opening eye lawyer you're going to be

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