Musk and Altman face off in trial that will determine OpenAI’s future

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DrewW

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I have to say if we lack refineries then why are we importing crude oil. Get a lawyer they'll tell you to shut up.
I stole the 2020 election and the statute of limitations is gone and there is nothing a lame human like you can do about it.
We don’t refine the kind of oil we pump out of the ground for lots of reasons. We refine oil other countries pump out of the ground and ship here. It would take years to decades to change the refining infrastructure or build a new refinery; If you think housing nimbys are bad try building a refinery.
 
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rachel612

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Let's assume for the sake of argument they'll eventually build an AGI of note.
That’s the slightly quaint aspect to the documents they’re relying on. Back then it was a lot easier to maintain the illusion that LLMs might lead to AGI. I’m not sure there are any mainstream experts that still believe that. People like Sutskever realized a while ago that a different approach would be required.

(Altman continues to talk crap about AGI but then he’s not exactly a disinterested party).
 
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That headline picture is chef’s kiss.

The problem with being a cornucopia of delusional musings is that, eventually, people treat you like a cornucopia of delusional musings…

…except the investors, apparently. They just keep gobbling the slop.

Your argument implies something no one seems to be talking about - that currently, the idea that we'll ever be able to create an AGI is delusional slop.
What the OP is all about, then, is two tech-bros arguing about who gets to be the high priest of the godhead they're sure they'll manage to make any day now.
 
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I question the decision to use "man" and "men" in that.

Musk needs the income to bolster the debt write-down he did before starting the SpaceX IPO, or that's going to get really ugly really fast.

Altman needs the money to keep the furnaces lit at OpenAI for another few months. SpaceX wouldn't need the money if Musk backed off on the fucked up idea of space data centers. SpaceX has an arguably better case use for the money, too, and a more sound fiscal footing.

So, based on that, and not on the personalities involved (who are just different types of douchebags cut from the same cloth), I'd like to see Musk walk away with the cash. I have no doubt he'll be burning it in his own way (he needs money because all of his is virtual and very likely belongs to other people at this point, rather than actual), but SpaceX does some good things and I expect the IPO will end up a disaster in the end when they discover that physics doesn't really lend itself well to space-based data centers (assuming that whole bullshit isn't just a ploy to get actual funds to pay back investors who won't see their money unless he finds new revenue sources before they decide to send hit squads after him).

OpenAI could disappear in the next 3 seconds and other than the financial fallout, nothing of value would be lost.

It's a tough call, though. I'd definitely be happy if both of them lose, even if it'd suck to some degree for the American space program.

The problem is the ethics. Musk owning SpaceX means that we're still relying on a nazi to take us to space - and not even a former one who, like ol' Wernher, forever after kept his silence on matters political, but one who is actively pushing the white supremacy agenda.

When SpaceX makes money, some of that goes straight into supporting white supremacy, buying campaigns for the politicians currently pushing the GOP/MAGA agenda.
People who consider this largely irrelevant need to recall that Musk being in that spot is what got him DOGE - which in 2025 alone showed a cost of half a million lives lost, mainly children, because of his sudden shutdown of USAID.
The cost of supporting him and his companies is now measured in actual lives lost - Half a million lives per year until the rest of the world manages to build anew what the US created and suddenly abandoned.

That's the participation trophy of supporting SpaceX now. A share in the mountain of dead children Musk considers a favorable side effect with so many of them being brown and black.
 
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DrewW

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Easy. Musk. OpenAi is going to have its lunch eaten by Anthropic anyway.
Anthropic is the only AI darling with a clear use case and product/market fit. Claude Code is a good product. ChatGPT didn’t monetize the buzz and Grok is just bad (it is also thinking-its-a-Nazi-bad but simultaneously a bad product).
 
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Elon Musk apparently does not realize that while all charities are non-profits, not all non-profits are charities. He talks like they planned to use AI to house and feed the world's poor. :rolleyes:

The poor that, as the head of DOGE, he is directly responsible for genociding?
 
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This is sort of a thing in UK civil claims/cases, maybe elsewhere too. The winning party is entitled to their "reasonable" legal costs, but the judge gets to decide what is reasonable. If the winner engages in enough legal shitbaggery the judge can just award them no costs.

Or, as I seem to remember, the princely sum of £1.

A very clear sign of judicial "I wish you could both lose".
 
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What would be truly hilarious is if the judge could somehow decide that neither Musk NOR Altman have the claim to be the "rightful CEO" and awards control to someone else.

From all the bickering the only conclusion I can make is that I trust the motives of neither Musk nor Altman and having EITHER of them in charge if by some miracle OpenAI does produce an AGI would I believe result in catastrophy either way.
 
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RZetopan

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"Musk is supposedly the one most committed to AI safety and AI as a public good."

And to absolutely cement his commitment to using AI for the "public good", the MuskRat can always point to Grok as wanting to be addressed as MechaHtler, and his continual defense of CSAM generated by Grok! That should convince every jury (which isn't entirely composed of psychopaths). The MuskRat is NEVER serIous. Remember when he wanted to save humanity by establishing a community on Mars? But only until someone else was going to get to the moon and his Mars fantasy was starting to fail. e.g., Being on Mars will be just like eating pizza on the beach, or some other horseshit.
 
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