Elon Musk ends OpenAI lawsuit without explaining why Elon Musk has aborted his legal action against OpenAI. Filings lodged with the Superior Court of California on Tuesday reveal that Musk called off the case but offer no reason for his action. The social media, electric vehicle, AI, tequila, tunnelling, and rocketry entrepreneur brought the case in March 2024, alleging that …
Oh look, Mummy, an AI bun fight to determine who is playing second fiddle on a leading vessel’s bridge ..... where, as it is so written, the best old men always win win to do orchestrated battle with 0days‽ .
To the victor, the spoils ...... a decidedly and designedly uncertain and disruptive future to seize and wield for almighty command and remote virtual control with immaculately resourceful assets of universatile vital force. Use its AI and IT and ravishing and ravenous media machinery wisely if and/or when you care to dare share what is newly to be uncovered and discovered enriching with constant processing and reprocessing with further information and greater intelligence thereby provided for deeper mining of raw core ore source and dark matters.
And much more the worthy endless task of pioneering endeavourers rather than the debilitating Sisyphean one of squabbling wannabe leaders of followers.
Your positronic matrix is hallucinating again. .... Lord Elpuss
You might like to consider and accept "elucidating again", Lord Elpuss, as the more accurate ACTive descriptor for the trip surveyed and revealed.
He knew it had no legal ground to stand on, he likes to use threats of lawsuit and actual lawsuit as a way to silence or punish others by making them waste money defending themselves. Because he has so much money, the legal costs are inconsequential to him, but not so much for those he attacks.
And it wouldn't be the first time. After being legally forced to follow through with the acquisition of Twitter, even though by that time he obviously no longer wanted to, he had to pay quite handsomely the very lawyers that Twitter had tasked with forcing him. Hilarious.
Apple announces they're integrating OpenAI into their devices. Elon throws a hissy fit about it, then promptly drops his lawsuit against OpenAI. I think I see where this one's going.
I reckon he figures Apple will be more wiling to pay him to go away, and that such a "victory" will convince those shareholders that he deserves that $50 billion payout.
"Musk's inability to produce a contract – meaning his claims of a breach were hard to prove."
I know contract law is notoriously convoluted and even verbal contracts can be worth slightly more than the paper they are written on, but seems somewhat negligent on Musk's part not to have a copy of the actual contract (if one ever existed.)
FWIW I would not blame his poor dog as it's more likely that the owner, in one of his special-K moments, scoffed it down.
In the wash-up I suspect Musk's lawyers finally convinced the great brain that whatever agreement he had with OpenAI constituted an unenforceable undertaking on both parties.
I'd venture that the upcoming legal analysis of his Autopilot might have clued him in to the fact that he was the one who needed to prove breach of contract and, contrary to the tens of thousands of Tesla owners, he ain't got no contract.
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