Does “inject chaos into proceedings” sound like something Elon Musk would do during a lawsuit? Well, I hope you’re sitting down because they’re accusing him of doing just that in an OpenAI court file Bloomberg reported on Saturday.
Earlier this weekMusk amended his lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. He’s still looking for a surprising $134 billion for allegedly engaging in what he characterizes as fraud by switching from nonprofit to for-profit status. Now, however, he is asking that possible damages be paid not to him, the richest person in the world, but to the non-profit organization OpenAI.
He also wants Sam Altman, the company’s CEO, and Greg Brockman, its president, fired.
OpenAI says this is Musk “trying to reframe his public narrative about his lawsuit.” In fact, it’s a significant change in the way the story could be framed. Instead of being a billionaire looking for another gigantic sum of money, he becomes a billionaire looking to restore the corporate structure of a company that supposedly harmed him.
OpenAI characterized Musk making such a move just weeks before a test is scheduled to begin at the end of this month as a “legal ambush,” that is, “legally inadequate and without factual basis.” The filing also says: “Musk’s proposed amendment would require the presentation of different evidence and witnesses than in the case he sponsored until three days ago.”
