Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against six people, including OpenAI. Musk, who was the founder of OpenAI, has now completely withdrawn, but he has criticized the principles that Sam Altman established when he founded OpenAI with him, as well as the principle of good faith. In simple terms, it's like an open church, but it's closed.
Issues in the lawsuit
The main reason Elon Musk sued OpenAI is that OpenAI is using AI technology for commercial purposes, which is clearly against the founding principles of OpenAI. The complaint specifically points out that the GPT-4 model is completely closed, which seems to violate the spirit of 'open AI' that OpenAI initially pursued. It also mentions that the model is being commercially used by Microsoft, which will make a significant profit from it.
The document on the left presents researchers' criticisms of the limitations of the GPT architecture. The GPT architecture has the limitation that it can only produce one output at a time and cannot 'backtrack'. However, AI research has long been solving these problems, and in applications such as maze finding, it should be able to find the appropriate path. It also mentions that Reuters reported that OpenAI is developing a secret algorithm called Q*. This algorithm is beyond the scope of the Microsoft license, and it is argued that it should be released as an artificial general intelligence (AGI) so that it can benefit the public.
So, what does Elon Musk want?
According to the lawsuit, here's what Elon Musk seems to want to do:
These demands are intended to ensure that the plaintiffs keep the goals and values that OpenAI promised when it was founded, and emphasize the openness and non-profit nature of AI technology. Elon claims that OpenAI is moving away from these principles and is benefiting corporations such as Microsoft, and he has stated the above demands in the main to demand legal judgment and related financial compensation.
A. Specifically ordering the defendant to perform his contractual promise.
I. An order requiring OpenAI to continue to follow its longstanding practice of making AI research and technologies publicly available.
Ii. An order prohibiting Defendant from using OpenAI, Inc. or its assets for personal gain, the financial benefit of Microsoft, or any other specific individual or entity.
B. Legal ruling that GPT-4 constitutes artificial general intelligence (AGI) and is outside the scope of OpenAI’s license to Microsoft.
C. Legal determination that Q* and/or other OpenAI next-generation language models constitute AGI and are outside the scope of OpenAI’s license to Microsoft.
D. An injunction to effectively enforce items A through C above.
E. Restitution, including restitution and forfeiture of all profits received from Defendant while engaging in the unfair and improper practices.
F. Accounting for contributions of funds to OpenAI, Inc. by authors and others, and for any use of intellectual property or derivative works supported by such contributions.
G. Judgment for general damages, actual damages, and punitive damages (any of which will be proven at trial).
H. Attorney's Fees Under the California Rules of Civil Procedure.
I. Pre-sentence and post-sentence interest at the statutory maximum interest rate.
J. Any other additional relief the court deems appropriate.
Well, it's a story that's very Musk-like and is also connected to the meme "ClosedAI" that is popular on the Internet, so it's hard to say who is right. From Elon Musk's perspective, it seems like he's asking OpenAI to take action, such as releasing models that did well, such as DALLE-2 and GPT-3, just as he did in the past when he released hundreds of patents and technologies related to electric vehicles, leading to explosive success in the electric vehicle market. (Then XAI will do well...)
The lawsuit alleges breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and unfair business practices, and seeks to force OpenAI to comply with its founding agreement and develop AGI for the benefit of humanity. It also has implications for ongoing competition authorities in the U.S., EU, and UK, who are investigating whether the deal between Microsoft and OpenAI was legal.
Musk proposed that OpenAI be a non-profit AI research institute in 2015, as opposed to Google, and that the institute would be open source, providing technology for free for the benefit of humanity. And that's what OpenAI was. However, OpenAI has deviated significantly from these principles when it released GPT-4 in 2023. Other than a technical report (performance table), it has not disclosed anything about how it was made or its research methods.
This criticism has become even more heated recently, with Google open-sourcing Gemma and Meta open-sourcing LLaMA.
Regardless of how the lawsuit actually plays out, it seems likely that it will have significant implications.
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확실히 지금의 OpenAI 는 과거 설립 이념을 잃어버린 것 같습니다. 여러가지 이해관계가 있겠지만 OpenAI 내부 구성원들이 바라보는 점도 이러한 노선에 영향을 끼치고 있을 것 이라 생각이되네요.
그리고 일론머스크는.. 정말.. 저러한 행동원칙에 대한 심리가 정말 순수적 공익성을 위한거라면 대단한 사람같습니다.
여러가지 이해관계가 있겠지만 OpenAI 내부 구성원들이 바라보는 점도 이러한 노선에 영향을 끼치고 있을 것 이라 생각이되네요.
그리고 일론머스크는.. 정말.. 저러한 행동원칙에 대한 심리가 정말 순수적 공익성을 위한거라면 대단한 사람같습니다.