In less than a week after launching ChatGPT-4o, the latest version of this OpenAI artificial intelligence, There was no shortage of criticism and even less from important voices in the sector.
Other comments called the update a “joke” and “uncomfortable” to watch. However, this is not the first time Musk has criticized ChatGPT.
(Read more: OpenAI security worker leaves company over fears ChatGPT will get out of control)
In fact, the South African was one of the founders of OpenAI, the company in charge of ChatGPt, and since he left it he has been critical of it. For example, in 2023, Musk signed a letter asking artificial intelligence developers to pause to draw some ethical lines to avoid the potential risks of this technology.
Also in 2024, Musk sued OpenAI for breaching the company’s founding agreements by prioritizing commercial interests over the nonprofit purpose with which the company was founded.
OpenAI noted that the lawsuit’s arguments are frivolous, incoherent and extraordinary. “If this case proceeded to discovery, the evidence would show that Musk supported a for-profit structure for OpenAI, which would be controlled by Musk himself, and abandoned the project when his wishes were not followed. Seeing the remarkable technological advances it has achieved OpenAI, Musk now wants that success for himself,” said the company led by Sam Altman.
(Also: Google’s mistake with an important Australian fund that could have cost it $125 billion)
Chapter aside, Musk launched this week in Europe his chatbot, Grok, his generative artificial intelligence model with which he seeks to compete with OpenAI with ChayGPT and Google with Gemini.
