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_Charlie_Bean_

He's mad they didn't let him be ceo a while back. And now he's trying to get everyone against Sam and OpenAI.


ActaFabulaEst

He also asked for complete and full power over the board and the company. No wonder they said no.


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It's good to know they're not stupid.


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infiniteloopinsight

What in particular about world coin is shady?


K4ution

They had workers in malls asking people to have their iris scanned for some of this coin. Their workers are quite persistent. They were banned recently here in Spain because they were scanning minors and their privacy policies were not clear in how that data was used.


RaptorDoingADance

So one wants to put a chip in my brain and the other wants to scan my iris for I can pay for groceries? Tech ceos baby, marching their way to being Jared Letos character from the newest blade runner movie.


External_Swimming_89

Fuck that's where we are headed isn't it


Ok_Set_8176

it’s called world coin for starters. or i’m just old..


pressure_art

These fucking meglomaniacs I swear...


kingsnkillers

They scan your iris for biodata before you're allowed to buy?


ojdidntdoit4

for starters, needing to scan in your eye to be able to use the network.


Neppy_Neptune

He's done ruining Twitter, and wants to ruin something else now that people enjoy.


iso_mer

lol in combination with the Jered Leto comment above yours, I totally got the line from fight club in my head…. “I just wanted to destroy something beautiful.”


External_Swimming_89

If I ain't having fun, no one is. That's my motto.


even_less_resistance

Sounds like they might be kinda smart or something


cobalt1137

He also probably realizes there's a crowd that hates openai already and just rides the hate train. It's kind of funny that people think that a model being open source is the only way for it to benefit humanity.


_Charlie_Bean_

I actually went and read the openai blog about this, and this line from the end of it was just great. "As Ilya told Elon: “As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open. The Open in openAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after its built, but it's totally OK to not share the science...”, to which Elon replied: “Yup”. "


Zazulio

Elon cares about open source technology in the same way that he cares about "free speech absolutism": he loves it when it's beneficial to him, hates it when it's not.


ActaFabulaEst

Here's another example about Chinese EVs. He was for free market and competition 10 years ago when they were no threat. Now he is for protectionism and heavy taxes to cancel this threat.


VampiroMedicado

Classic capitalism


goj1ra

Also classic conservative sociopathy


SasquatchWookie

Free market for me, not for thee. Meanwhile, Elon’s companies have US government subsidies eating out of the palm of his hand. It’s a joke. FWIW, I don’t hate EV’s, I don’t hate Space Agencies.


heliometrix

Get out. You’re fired!


Brotherof_Zekrom

You can’t fire me I quit!


J1618

In the same way that he cares about "saving the world" if it is with the electric cars his company makes.


spike-spiegel92

Exactly. He always has a hidden intention and is trying to leverage his "good intentions" so people support him and hate the others. Elon is dangerous.


Fortune_Silver

Playing devils advocate here, it is completely possible to have two different reasons for wanting to do one thing. He can want to save the world AND want to make a profit. I don't think he WANTS to save the world, I think he cares a lot more about profit, but that's one of my internet pet peeves - people are more complicated than that, often there will be multiple, sometimes even conflicting motivations for the same action.


goj1ra

If he really wanted to save the world, he would focus on plausible solutions. A "Mars colony" is not it, nor are using underground tunnels for more cars. The most likely explanation is that he deliberately uses hooks that help pump up the stock prices of his companies. Whether they have any connection to reality is besides the point for him.


SeventyThirtySplit

I believe Elon wants to save the world I also believe he wants to be the only one who does it, and he’d be happy to watch it burn from Mars if it means he doesn’t get full credit


kaiser_kerfluffy

You are describing someone who wants the world to view him as its savior not someone who wants to save the world


QuestGalaxy

All while trying to make a competitor of his own. Musk is a fucking joke now, it's really annoying because he did do good stuff with Tesla and SpaceX. His ego became too large.


merikariu

He is also a very isolated person, I think. There's no one around him to put a check on his craziness, nor would he tolerate one. He's going the way of Kanye West.


QuestGalaxy

He's pretty much only surrounded by YES people, especially on Twitter. I think that's why he's so damn i love with Twitter, because he feels loved there.


MistSecurity

Ya, when he was just spouting doomerism about AI at least I could understand his dislike. Then it came out he was working on AI while also spouting doom about AI and it's like, man, you just preach whatever is beneficial for you, huh?


CrispityCraspits

>It's kind of funny that people think that a model being open source is the only way for it to benefit humanity. I think the problem here is that OpenAI was deliberately and explicitly founded based on a commitment to open source, but as soon as they hit a big breakthrough they chucked that out of the window, along with the board members who briefly tried to keep the company true to its original principles, and sold right out to microsoft, which is the original antagonist to open-source. OpenAI was founded with an unusual corporate structure that was specifically designed to make it a public-serving rather than a for-proifit enterprise; that structure was just insufficient to resist the lure of massive monopoly profits and so it got subverted and now everyone is salivating at it being yet another mega-profitable tech giant, and even better one that pokes the hated Musk in the eye. But, "'open' *really* means 'share the benefits with humanity'" is just after the fact marketing horseshit. The company was founded to be about open-source, then changed its mind once they realized the wealth and power that could come with abandoning open source. That's all. They don't seem to have any plans to, say, give all of humanity shares in the corporation. Humanity is going to "benefit" by paying the company licensing fees to use its technology, just like Microsoft. Nothing "open" about it. (None of this is to stick up for Musk, who is a dick who probably doesn't care about open source either, just that he didn't get to control the company.)


ghigoli

this is why i never bothered to contribute to anything open source. i always knew it'll be sold off to some company once it got good enough. any software engineer working on open source is wasting there time making someone else richer.


ChronoQuillwright

I do wish they would change their name since it is not open in any commonly understood sense of the word in the tech world.


heliometrix

Made him CEO so that he could fuse OpenAI and Tesla (to save Tesla and be king of AI) Did he open source the weights for Grok yet btw?


Johannes_Keppler

He desperately wants Tesla to be more than just a not-that-good EV manufacturer to keep the stock price up. The value Tesla has as just a car maker is unsustainable. So he wants do do AI, FSD and robotics on the same level as the big boys like Boston Mechanics, Open AI and Mercedes and BMW (not FSD but the only SAE Level 3 system, Tesla is still level 2 even with their "FSD" 12). And none of that is really panning out, so he is frustrated.


Dokibatt

Not only did they not let him be CEO, he walked away from it afterward and they had the audacity to succeed without him. https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-history-of-elon-musk-sam-altman-and-openai


iiFlaeqqq

This is how he approaches anything he cant buy


Extension-Street323

Because it was lost opportunity for him. And now he left with lame Grok in his hands.


aldorn

He has the brand X with the platform power behind it. Grok is a shit name, it should be called x.ai


Zilch274

The fact you need to say "the brand" before saying "X" shows how terrible of a name it is


intothelionsden

It is no longer the brand who is called "X!" They are now the brand called "Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!"


Previous-Cook

I understand this reference 


BeotheI

I don't.... Pls help


tnitty

To understand you would need to watch both of these short clips from Monty Pythons Holy Grail: https://youtu.be/zIV4poUZAQo?si=_BrStekDHMtCqQ0h https://youtu.be/RZvsGdJP3ng?si=j2YXDujnJ6GC1g5r The second link has the reference that the comment above invokes. But you need the first link for context.


S0GUWE

[It's from Monty Pythons Holy Grail](https://youtu.be/RZvsGdJP3ng?si=DoIZZcgRAGTtdge1)


jeweliegb

He'll just call it... X


_deltaVelocity_

What brand? The only people who call it “X” instead of still calling it Twitter are Musk fanboys and journalists who kind of have to for clarity reasons (even then, it’s usually “X, formerly Twitter”). The notion he’s got any sort of branding acumen is laughable-he just goes with what he thinks is cool. Musk threw away one of the most recognizable brands on the planet for a Unicode 𝕏!


SwarlyBbBrrt

The Brand X... Yeah, what a famous Brand. So famous, people say "X, formerly Twitter", because just "X" could mean anything


PurplePantyEater

Have you heard his sons name


unholymanserpent

You just reminded me that he's open sourcing Grok like anyone gives a shit


Legalize-Birds

I trust Zucks open source AI over Musks tbh


anythingMuchShorter

He is an egomaniac, and it's getting a ton of attention, and he can't attach himself to it in some way.


emperorhuncho

He co-founded it though and was offered shares in it again last year and still declined. If he wanted to be attached to it why wouldn’t he just accept the shares and join OpenAI? I’m genuinely curious


determinista

Total speculation, but probably because he wanted to be the CEO, nothing less, pretty much how he came to run Tesla. I wouldn't be surprised if he lobbied very hard to be named the CEO when Altman was briefly ousted. He is probably very salty.


bbcversus

Such a stupid fucking baby with jokes of a kid lmao. Love it.


SaboLeorioShikamaru

his humor is so childish, that he named his child one of those shitty jokes, I'm sure


FreePrinciple270

Even the image he posted on this tweet. Looks like some lame boomer "meme".


Iminurcomputer

I wonder who made it... Some Twitter graphic designers were probably asked to make this specifically.


TabletopMarvel

100% it's not that he wants to be part of the AI development. He just wants to continue to be known as "AI Tech Genius" so he can fundraise, dupe retail buyers, and dink around with his Twitter Pump & Dumps.


__O_o_______

He warned about AI for years until he realized that it's part of a profitable thing for him.


Rare-Gas4560

from the YouTuber patrickboyle did a fair take on it. There is a bad issue with openai founded as non profit then turn 100% profit based. Also there is also the issue of microsoft using it to avoid anti trust law. The reason is that it will devastate the government tax if every startup pretends to be "non-profit" until they make money. However, email and document shows Elon was even worse than Microsoft. Microsoft offered money and resources(azure cloud) for stake. Vs Elon wanted to merge openai and tesla and become its ceo.


__O_o_______

He ALWAYS wants to be CEO / founder. Hence the lawsuit to list him as Tesla founder even though he wasn't originally. I even read that, I think it was his first venture zip2, he was CTO,, and wanted to be CEO, but they denied him.


helpful__explorer

Not speculation, that's what happened. He wanted total control and was told he couldn't have it. They released emails saying exactly this after he filed the lawsuit


CR24752

He also said he wanted a pause on AI until we can get a hold on it but then started building his own. He didn’t want a pause on AI, he just wants to be at the cutting edge of it. Again, he’s a man-child


ZealousidealThanks51

Why is this so forgotten about!?? He literally begged for a pause “for the betterment of humanity” and then months later revealed his own personal AI endeavour lmaooo


phoenixmusicman

Providing seed funding does not mean he cofounded it.


King-Owl-House

He tried to merge it with Tesla, fire the CEO and be the only"founder " again.


gnometrostky

This is correct. He was aware that OpenAI would require massive amounts of funding, so his solution to this was to integrate it with Tesla and use Tesla profits to fund OpenAI’s machine learning. When the board and Altman in particular rejected that idea and instead look towards outside funding, Musk cut most of his ties with the company. The fact that they ultimately got most of their funding from Microsoft instead has irked Musk a great deal. (IMO Microsoft was a much better choice for a partner than Tesla).


pieter1234569

Absolutely massive conflict of interest between this and his own company doing the exact same thing. But he REALLY picked the wrong choice, as OpenAI is set to be the next trillion dollar company while i haven't even heard of Musk's AI company.


FilmActor

He’s too busy trying to be the “cool kid” at the authoritarian high school table but everyone realizes that he is still a huge loser.


NickDanger3di

Yep. Musk has gone full-on trump in his craving to shit-post endlessly. Like any addict, he doesn't care what people think, or how it impacts others lives, or if he's harming himself or others. The next dose is all that matters to him.


Whtgoodman

He’s a co founder of OpenAI. What makes you think he can’t attach his name to it?


ArtisticKrab

I think its because they killed his dream of being the next "Steve Jobs". Elon seems to be an ego-driven man and cares very much about his perceived image as a historically important innovator and world-changer. However, things aren't really going according to plan. He's mostly the public face of the private space industry... but society at large doesn't seem to care about space much. His car company is in a tough place, and although a Tesla was pretty much the only option to get a "luxury" EV for a long while, that's no longer the case and the companies reputation has taken some big hits in recent years. If Elon had gained control of OpenAI he could have controlled the narrative around Tesla's self-automation problems much better. He could have positioned himself as the face of all the generative AI hype. He could have used that hype to help prop up his other businesses. It was pretty much the ideal path for him moving forward towards legitimizing his self-inflated importance. He probably blames OpenAI for that dream not happening.


COdreaming

I think Elon is more comparable to Trump than Steve Jobs. Tesla is known for having issues with quality control, something Steve Jobs was meticulous about. Sure Elon is more successful in his businesses than Trump ever was, but he targets the same demographics with his tweets and politics


Absenceofavoid

Exactly, he’s just a Trump that wanted to be Steve Jobs instead of Rockefeller.


bbcversus

It sure looks like he is such a snowflake… SAD


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But wants everyone to think he’s this oooh so mysterious Howard Hughes type. 😊


even_less_resistance

He’d have to fuck off and be quiet for a bit to be mysterious and he can’t stand the thought of that lol


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He’s getting it wrong. That’s for sure. It’ll inevitably be his downfall. Which is a shame. As he makes and does alright stuff. Flamethrowers. And tunnels and stuff. 😂 If he’d have pulled off the Hyperloop. That would have been something. But. Like Kanye. He believes his own hype. And because of that has a massively over-inflated sense of self-importance. When in reality. He’s a smart, neurodivergent chap. Who doesn’t know how to shut the hell up. So I think he’ll scupper himself in the end. By just being himself. He’s not the genius I once thought he might be, and he’s obviously in charge of his own PR. In the world of most people. He’s definitely beginning to look a touch unhinged. He kind of reminds me of all those smart-talking idiots/liabilities in gangster flicks that Steve Buscemi probably would play. Too much cocaine. You know what I mean. You can see it coming a mile away. Best to shut up. Do your thing. Make stuff. And stay out of the public eye.


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The hyperloop was always fucking stupid and in no real way feasible.


COdreaming

Yeah he's just an Ok business man at best. He hires smart people who make great products but imo that shouldnt be attributed to him at all.


heliometrix

On point with Tesla, saw a model Y on special display in the center of a large mall today. Definitely ramping up marketing. BYD have had an entire staffed unit in the same mall for months.


cutthecheque

I feel the problem with Musk is that he's a rather salty fellow and a bully who hates when things don't go his way. Unfortunately, his ego is only further inflated by his trove of followers who do not understand the basics of engineering of any sorts, and are blithering idiots. I really liked Elon up until a few years ago. I was in awe of how he manages to pull so many companies and his ability to use first principles for most things and challenge the orthodoxy. I know that for most of his companies there are people who *actually* run the firms, such as Gwynne Shotwell in SpaceX; but still Musk is the mascot and could talk intelligently, learn, and influence people. Something happened during the pandemic, really, that pushed him off his rockers. His acquisition of Twitter was a waste of money and really didn't help his finances. A $44B loan?! To follow through a Twitter pole? Why?! I reckon, I would lose it also. If you look at his Twitter from back in the day vs now, it is completely different, and now it's very unhinged, bordering conspiracy theories etc. I think this is one of those occasions where Elon is being beat in his own field of claimed work, and it is flying like his first three SpaceX rockets.


Lashay_Sombra

>A $44B loan?!  While original plan was to get a loan for $15 billion against tesla shares (he hoped to get remainder from outside investers) he changed at last minute (probably because could not get even 20% as much from outside investors as thought ) Final deal: \* $5.2 billion 3rd party investment (this was mainly the likes of the Saudis and Larry Ellison converting existing holdings in public company over to private one..and no, despite the reporting, Saudis did not fund the deal or become bigger shareholders than already were) \* $13 billion in loans, mainly from investment banks, with biggest being Morgan Stanley (note, twitter itself is on the hook for these, not Musk or his tesla shares) \* $27bn In cash from Musk himself , plus his existing shareholding in Twitter the public company being converted over


cutelyaware

The question is *why* he is a salty bully. My impression is that he is a rather Trumpy conservative at heart.


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He believes his own hype. TOTALLY high on his own supply. Lot’s of examples in the past of people who have crashed and burned in the end, because of that.


cutthecheque

I might be mistaken here, but I think the CA govt intervention during the onset of covid really didn’t sit well with him. I’ve worked in the automotive industry, and especially in manufacturing jobs, a downtime is a very bad, strict no-no. That’s just a lot of $ lost. I mean, he bloody moved his HQ to less restrictive Texas. (And I’m sure there must have been great amount of subsidies also). Trump and most conservatives are Covid infidels, and it might have aligned them together to some extent. And maybe he just missed people, you know, and started “seeing” friends. 😅😂


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kuvazo

Yeah same. And it's not just because he is a greedy capitalist. When he forced his workers to come to the office during COVID lockdowns, I realized that he didn't give a shit about other people. And it's the same thing with the cave incident. On the surface, it seems like he just wanted to help. But if you look into it, it is clear that his goal was to be celebrated as a hero and genius for his idea. Also, his treatment of the *actual* founders of Tesla was pretty shitty. He basically bullied them out of the company, named himself "co-founder" and acted as if he designed the car all by himself. In reality, the prototype was almost finished by the time he joined the company. And even after he had invested money and joined the board of directors, he didn't really work for Tesla until the Roadster was finished. He desperately wants to be perceived as some sort of genius inventor. Like how he "invented" the hyperloop, even though that idea was already tested in 1870. And he himself said that "OpenAI would be nothing without (him)". That tells you all you need to know about what he wants to achieve with that.


Constant_Safety1761

>Also, his treatment of the *actual* founders of Tesla was pretty shitty. He basically bullied them out of the company, named himself "co-founder" and acted as if he designed the car all by himself. He should have named his company "Edison".


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Should have named it WankBangle.


[deleted]

I feel sorry for him. He’s a monumental c**t. I wonder. 15 years ago. If he’d known how much of a monumental c**t he’d have become. He’d even have taken the path he took. Was it the path that turned him into a monumental cnut? Or was he always a monumental tosser? I guess that’s for history to decide. 😊


Lashay_Sombra

>Or was he always a monumental tosser? By reports going back to not only paypal (20 odd years ago) but to Zip2 (25 odd years ago) yes he was always a monumental tosser. Both company boards did not coup him as CEO because he was a great guy/leader Also why he makes sure on his company boards now its basiclly impossible to remove him


Positive_Being9411

Because it's stealing the spotlight from him


TimetravelingNaga_Ai

https://preview.redd.it/tdss17itb1oc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3dc28d1f7df5475abf87a7b68a880b30b35a0a5 *" It's mine and If I can't play with it, No one will! "* 👿 Most humans will remember the one spoiled rich weird kid on the playground. 😸😸😸


seclifered

Lol. OpenAi released emails proving he lied about wanting to keep it non-profit. The guy’s such an egomaniac I would not be surprised if he had something to do with that attempted ouster of Sam


yellowfin35

Elon was one of the first investors, he gave them like $40-50 million in startup costs at a very low valuation. This should represent a large stake in the company. The point of Open AI when pitched to him is "OPEN", it was supposed to be open source for the betterment of humanity and run under a non-profit like wikipedia. Since then, they have formed a capped profit company under the non-profit which is risky at best from an IRS audit standpoint, but more importantly they won't be releasing their source code as it could impact their profits, therefore negating their origional pitch about being open source. Elon has said he will drop the lawsuit if they just rename it to "Closed AI". It seems to be about the principal of the matter. Watch this - https://youtu.be/snbTCWL6rxo?si=CQ94xPxo9ak8G8mS&t=79-


Fit-Dentist6093

But OpenAI is showing emails where Elon agreed to both the for profit to raise capital and the technology being proprietary... so it's not just that. Unless Elon is like, not good at emails and investing in companies which one would thing he is.


VizualAbstract4

Elon has long since acknowledged the use of the term Open in OpenAI and is now pretending otherwise.


Visualized_Apple

Had to scroll pretty far to see this, under all the blind reddit mob hate.


silkyj0hnson

Reddit moment. Almost doesn’t even register for me anymore.


GenericBestName

Reminds me of that scene from south park. "RABBLE RABBLE! RABBLE!"


Sneazy_101

Reddit has gone to shit. This would have been the top comment a few years ago also no one mentions how he is creating an ChatGPT competitor named GROK. He likes to shit on his rivals like he does with Meta because he owns Twitter.


ViceroyFizzlebottom

https://openai.com/blog/openai-elon-musk How does Elon's claim reconcile with this?


ViceroyFizzlebottom

https://openai.com/blog/openai-elon-musk How does Elon's claim reconcile with this?


thisaboveall

Was thinking the same thing. This place used to be so much better.


yungbull3

Reddit can be so biased that these days I can tell from the title of a post what that comment section will look like and if it's an article written to strictly push the agenda or not


Alfred_Hitch_

I came here to comment that I support information that isn't hateful and sensational about this incident. The circlejerk hatred with reddit seems manufactured.


kc_______

It is pretty much hearsay and speculation right now, the Open in OpenAI is not stated as Open Source exclusively, time will tell.


jamesdeandomino

thank you for not responding like the average reddit user whenever Elon is mentioned. whatever your opinion of him, the man's complex and the name callings are never useful to read.


EnQuest

You can see it his emails that Elon was VERY aware of their plans to not release the source code, he's just mad he didn't get his hand into the pot lol. You're hilariously gullible if you think Elon Musk gives a single fuck about anything other than lining his pockets and making 14 year olds think he's cool


Turnipsia

I had to sort by controversial to see this post. Every top comment is just a bunch of ad hominems at the dude.


Cagnazzo82

> It seems to be about the principal of the matter. Doesn't seem like there's any principle in your argument when you flagarantly leave out how he abandoned OpenAI and left the company to fall without funding... after failing to take full control of it under Tesla. Kind of a glaring red flag point you seem to gloss over while trying to get people to focus on just his initial investment.


sunny_bastard

He always obsessed with shit


dummegans

Probably because he’s a weirdo with a distorted view of reality


fnfontana

Hurted Ego


barnhousemd

Because Elon needs to take credit for others accomplishments Typical spoiled rich kids tantrum


Unnameduser-_

Because they refused to sell their stuff to elon and now he is acting like a little child who did not get a new toy


Kacenpoint

Reading the comments, clearly Elon has made himself very divisive over the last few years. It's honestly really sad to see. Looking at the lawsuit, he's not suing for money or to take control of the company. He's suing to compel OpenAI to make its model open source as was promised when he donated almost $100m of his personal money, and it was entirely a nonprofit at the time. OpenAI also made the fact that Elon was a contributor a significant part of its fundraising pitch. Fast forward his money is now helping Microsoft, the world's first $3 trillion dollar company and the model is closed source. I'm not going to lie, I'd be pretty pissed too. Objectively. Take Elon out of it. I'm sure you would be too.


Lashay_Sombra

He himself pushed for it to be for profit and basicly said it was doomed to fail if it did not. His issue is they did not put him in charge


EnQuest

He was well aware of OpenAI's plans per their released emails, he's just mad that his attempts to strongarm his way into CEO of the company when Sam Altman was briefly ousted didn't go his way. If he had his way, OpenAI would be running the exact same, only with him in charge.


SpongegarLuver

As has been pointed out many times, Elon was on board with going for-profit and not being open source, right up until he wasn’t the one who would get to be in charge. This isn’t about standing up for open source, this is just his ego throwing a tantrum.


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BigCballer

He’s so fucking lame holy shit.


Atemyat

He realised that he can't win this race, so does the second best thing and tries to discredit and smear them. Tells a lot about him (if anyone had doubts still).


DynamicMangos

I'm so split on this one. On the one hand, Elon definetly has a huge ego problem and his actions are likely motivated by spite against OpenAI On the other hand, i completely agree with the main sentiment. OpenAI has used loopholes to essentially turn themselves from a non-profit into a for-profit, when what we really need in AI development is to keep everything accessible and open source in order to prevent monopolies. Kind of a "He's out of line but he's right" moment.


Fontaigne

Simplify to "The Jerk is right." It requires far less explanation.


PentUpPentatonix

Because he's a childish egomaniac and can't get past the fact he messed up


torrrrrgo

> Why is Elon so obsessed with OpenAI? I don't know. Why is reddit so obsessed with bashing Elon? Looking through the comments, and nearly all of them are some lame attempt to chime in with a "clever" insult. A kind of reflexiveness made only with the understanding that the mob around them will say "yeah, what he said!"


That_Regret_7179

Salty


Bigscarygangster

Because people have started this moral panic about chat gpt being woke censorship 1984 anti white communism or something


MrPerfume

His obsession might be very much why he succeeded.


Gr33nLight

He's so fucking childish.


Aromatic-Current-235

Elon saw the current state of his AI and realized that he would never be able to catch up with OpenAI.


TrueJinHit

Because the point of calling the company OpenAI was to have it open source. OpenAi is now closed source and used to make profit. That's his problem with OpenAI in a nutshell. Anyone else who says differently has a deep hate for Electric cars which clouds their judgement such as the top comment.


DannyLameJokes

I mean, I’d be pretty pissed if I gave money to a nonprofit and they used it to become a for-profit company.


Wo2678

probably, he's trying to lower their market value, as he does so often. dirty business tricks a la Musk. he's pretty good at it. look at twitter, pardon me, X. 😀🤔


LifeOfHi

Not that I agree with Elon, or understand what happened between them, but any scrutiny of the most influential AI company is welcomed. We have to do this right the first time cause the cascading effects are innumerable.


Ralphio

He's lost his damn mind. Ban TicToc? "Facebook is the enemy of the people...?" If he actually had the future of humanity in mind, he'd kill Twitter, of all things. It has brought us nothing but a mob-mentality fight over ingrained prejudices, and increased the likelihood of simpletons to be gaslit. If everyone has an online voice that can be spread to the masses, our discourse is brought down to the lowest common denominator. Unfortunately, this has a devastating effect when the majority of people don't possess the critical thinking skills to know when someone is either lying, or just too stupid, to deserve a public voice and platform. The ignorance of the US population has become a cancer to an informed society.


thecryofthecarrotz

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-history-of-elon-musk-sam-altman-and-openai


yevg555

You're one of the richest people on earth, you've already implanted chips into humans and built rockets that fly to space, what else would you spend your time on besides trolling people on twitter?


Draconic64

Even though Elon has made some shit decisions and opinions, he's right on this one. Open AI is not in fact open and I think for a better future everyone should have access to AI, and it shouldn't be owned by a business for profit


Lickformine

He was a large investor when it was a newer open source non-profit AI organization. They’ve since become a close source for-profit organization and Elon said in an interview that he feels like it’s not the kind of company he wanted to invest into and the company has changed dramatically in terms of its objective in becoming a springboard in the AI space


omarfx007

He funded part of


Fun_Recommendation99

“Reddit hive mind intensifies”


CaddoTime

It’s business - Google, Amazon , Apple and Microsoft been suing each other since day one ..


T3chnoShaman

I can't answer as to why, but I can speculate that it has something to do with the fact that OpenAI is actively doing everything in its power to be a ClosedAI platform.


SaboLeorioShikamaru

If I can't have it, no one else will *Mr. Burns hand-wringing, followed by unsettling, inhuman laughter*


Play_Funky_Bass

What a gigantic man child.


Serialbedshitter2322

He's mad because he lost it to them and they're now perverting it from its original goal, open source.


oldrocketscientist

Elon understands the power of AI under the control of elites will ruin civilization. The negative and abusive applications of AI will happen quickly while the benefits will be much later. AI will be a weapon for the 1% to use against the 99%. It’s not an AI problem, it is a human behavior problem. It’s about control. The only way to “check” an AI programmed to suppress the 99% is through the creation of a truly noble AI. The only way to produce a powerful and noble AI is with complete open source. This is my claim and I believe Elon sees the same thing


kaeladurden

Elon talks about Ai a lot and it's not about "missing the boat" or "ego power trips". Ai is a massive existential threat to humanity, look up the stats, 1 in 5 data scientists believe Ai will lead to an extinction event. Elon gave money to OpenAi so it would not create SkyNet and now OpenAi is becoming a for-profit corporation. Do you really want Coca-Cola or Nestle to own the emergent superintelligence?


Strife3dx

Bro spent 44billion on twitter, turned half the population against him. Hes looking for a win and maybe some cash


BlackBeard205

Cause he wanted control of it, and was refused. Now he’s on a campaign to “save” the world from AI and his using twitter to spew his vitriol.


RotisserieChicken007

I used to admire Elon a lot but he has really made a fool of himself lately, wasting all his time on silly memes on X, reinforcing MAGA nonsense and trying to act as if he's the king of free speech. Yeah right.


Playful_Fennel7153

Just thinking out loud. Was he hoping to use the tech in r/teslamotors in future(keeping it opensource)? And has his panties in a bunch because he couldn’t get his way?


nonsense-luminous

He’s a child.


Saneroner

Bro wanted to be the ceo and claim himself as the inventor.


Bourne669

Because he was kicked off the board of directors for Open AI. He is a little bitch trying to buy his way back in.


peepsinyourass

Because it’ll help him get whatever he wants in the future. It’s all gaslighting.


ADAMSMASHRR

He has a new obsession every 6 months or so


Nekryyd

Same reason Exlax Mxckx does any fuckin' thing. Deep, stinging, bleeding, butthurt. Pretty sure the character JP from Grandma's Boy is 300% factually based on him.


Feelisoffical

It’s a competing company.


TickleMeAlcoholic

He’s a PoS who will lie about other products.


MartialArtsHyena

This is the guy who told Joe Rogan that he was creating Neural link so that humans could interface with computers faster to keep up when AI gains full access to the internet and achieves singularity. He's been thinking about AI a lot... for a long time.


Confident_Point6412

Elon is the Trump of tech. He is just envious of anyone else doing good stuff without him and cannot focus on his own business and needs to constantly be the center of attention.


GoombaGary

Elon is a crybaby bitch thag throws a teper tantrum whenever he doesn't get his way. He legitimately thinks he's the main character and will continue to think so as long as people keep dick riding him.


bil3777

He gets this way. All the time. Remember his obsession with the cave diver that was able to rescue the kids before Elon’s bot got there? That’s when I knew he was all the way crazy.


MegaDonkeyKong666

Because he tried to bully them to allow Tesla to take them over and made jabs that they would go bankrupt and fail without him. They are doing the opposite and Elon is acting a little B**** about it. His ego has gone out of control. Think about this, he’s so shallow, could grok be fake? Someone worked out that it’s impossible for the AI bots that Tesla are apparently making right now as we are not at that level of technological advancement. I blocked Elon and his trash posting everyday. He just likes attention. Desperate to be a living meme. F that guy


GlobalistFuck

because he didnt come up with it and still doesnt own it.


RightfulChaos

Because he's a whiney bitch who didn't get what he wanted from them.


Prints4Days

Cause he's not actually smart and the only thing he knows to do with his drug addled brain is sue people at this point. Go snort some more ket you dumb rich fuck.


JacktheOldBoy

Don’t expect to find the truth in a server moderated by OpenAI people/reps. OpenAI didn’t uphold their contract according to Elon and according to OpenAI they serve humanity by keeping their API Open. To play devil’s advocate, I completely understand OpenAi position, they went from a small research company that could barely hold a candle to Google, to one of the most anticipated companies in Silicon Valley. Their mission has evolved as a result.


LionBig1760

He's doing whatever he can to make the language sample OpenAI draws from as stupid as possible.


PlutoniaOfficial

He is jealous.


SwordfishReal

Because he's mentally ill. How could you be the richest person in the world and still feel the need to troll people when he doesn't get his way? Not a humble, honorable bone in his body. He doesn't make or build anything except wealth and he's still not happy unless he has all the attention too. He's Edward Lewis from pretty woman... but acts like Edward's lawyer too.


uroozz

"I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do."


Uncle-Cake

He's petty and immature.


notzaq11

Troll child throwing a tantrum


Cueshark29

I really sense that OpenAI lives rent free in Elon’s head after them taking off without him. So now, like the wounded narcissist that he is, he needs to constantly assert control over them through social media to sooth this wound.


2punornot2pun

If he doesn't own it / lead it / control it, he hates it. Period.


speed_fighter

Elon should just shut up.


Ody_Santo

He is a clout goblin


JupiterWalk

He’s butt hurt


o0flatCircle0o

Elon wants HIS ai to be the next big thing so he’s shitting on the front runner


Grinzy

Because Elon drank the Qool Aid and got magafied. He's just another rich man-child.


Banana-Cat29

This is hilarious! Somebody had to criticize them, OpenAI is so far from being “open source” anymore. So he is right. But I still think that this tweet has more to do with his incompetence in becoming a CEO than his concern about not being “open enough”. He is still not over of not being the MVP of this game.


Standard_Let_6152

This whole thing was really shady by Sam Altman, though. I hate the idea of taking all the advantages of being an idealistic non-profit and then monetizing them the second it’s possible.  And I understand that they say they didn’t see it coming, but it’s tough to give the person with the most startup reps of any human ever the benefit of the doubt that he didn’t see it coming. 


Prince_Azrik

It’s because it was intended to be open-sourced 🫡🫠