MyHomeworkAteMyDog t1_jabv5i0 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 8:42 AM

Wasn’t he part of starting openAI?

suflaj t1_jac0rfd wrote on February 28, 2023 at 10:03 AM

Yes, but he left because it was a conflict of interest for Tesla (also says so in the article). I would assume he intends to create a Tesla subsidiary now or get rid of Trsla stock altogether (which would likely kill the company at this point, so it's unlikely).

catesnake t1_jad9mxm wrote on February 28, 2023 at 4:39 PM

I think he left when it became clear that other members of OpenAI weren't interested in the "Open" part of it.

suflaj t1_jadb19p wrote on February 28, 2023 at 4:48 PM

That's simply not true. Musk is not a open source or public domain advocate. He is a profit-driven entrepreneur.

His current ambitions to create a OpenAI alternative is not for open source or public domain, it's to counter the leftist agenda (coincidentally also racist and sexist) that OpenAI has been pushing with their latest products, as he has multiple times in the past proclaimed he is politically neutral, antipolitical/anti-establishment and expressed views that could be understood as conservative.

Obviously, he counts on it being profitable, as OpenAI has demonstrated. The question only is - how does he do this without entering a conflict of interest with Tesla, which is mostly an AI company itself?

It's not much different from the reason he provided for buying Twitter (other than being forced to), which is countering Twitters control of the narrative into one that stifles conservative views and promotes liberal ones.