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ELON: OPENAI’S FOUNDING DOCUMENTS PROVE IT WAS AN OPEN-SOURCE NONPROFIT “There’s a mountain of evidence that shows OpenAI was created as an open-source nonprofit. That’s literally the exact description in the incorporation documents. In fact, the documents explicitly say that no officer or founding member will benefit financially from... show more

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ELON: OPENAI WAS MEANT TO BE NONPROFIT AND OPEN SOURCE He’s explaining the original intent and where it went off course. “I came up with the name OpenAI as an open source and nonprofit organization. I funded OpenAI for the first roughly fifty million dollars. It was intended to be a nonprofit, open source company. Now they’re trying to change that for their own financial benefit into a for profit company that is closed source.” Source: Astro Greek

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ELON: HOW CAN A NONPROFIT NOW BE WORTH OVER $100B? "OpenAI is now really trying to maximize profit. How is it possible that an organization is founded with the goal of being open source, nonprofit – and I provided almost all the money in the beginning, almost $50 million to get it going, and no stock, I have no stock or control or anything – how is it possible to go from there to a company that's now largely worth over $100 billion and seems to be maximizing profit and is not open source? Let's say you fund a nonprofit to preserve some part of the Amazon rainforest, but instead, that nonprofit becomes a lumber company and chops down the forest and sells it. I'm considering a legal challenge, perhaps to have the court explain to me how an organization that I funded for one purpose can do the diametrically opposed purpose, and become a for-profit. Show me the trail of breadcrumbs." Source: Interview with Jordan Peterson, August 2024

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Elon Musk: I provided almost all the initial money for OpenAI. Now, they're for-profit and follow a diametrically opposed purpose. “OpenAI is now really trying to maximize profit. How is it possible that an organization is founded with the goal of being open source, nonprofit – and I provided almost all the money in the beginning, almost $50 million to get it going, and no stock, I have no stock or control or anything – how is it possible to go from there to a company that's now largely worth over $100 billion and seems to be maximizing profit and is not open source? Let's say you fund a nonprofit to preserve some part of the Amazon rainforest, but instead that nonprofit becomes a lumber company, and chops down the forest and sells it. I'm considering a legal challenge, perhaps to have the court explain to me how an organization that I funded for one purpose does the diametrically opposed purpose, and becomes a for-profit. Show me the trail of breadcrumbs.” Interview with Jordan Peterson, July 22, 2024

Elon Musk: I provided almost all the initial money for OpenAI. Now, they're for-profit and follow a diametrically opposed purpose. “OpenAI is now really trying to maximize profit. How is it possible that an organization is founded with the goal of being open source, nonprofit – and I provided almost all the money in the beginning, almost $50 million to get it going, and no stock, I have no stock or control or anything – how is it possible to go from there to a company that's now largely worth over $100 billion and seems to be maximizing profit and is not open source? Let's say you fund a nonprofit to preserve some part of the Amazon rainforest, but instead that nonprofit becomes a lumber company, and chops down the forest and sells it. I'm considering a legal challenge, perhaps to have the court explain to me how an organization that I funded for one purpose does the diametrically opposed purpose, and becomes a for-profit. Show me the trail of breadcrumbs.” Interview with Jordan Peterson, July 22, 2024

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