It’s not every day that the opening line of a lawsuit complaint includes a reference to the Gorgons, the Greek mythology monster of three sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snakes on their heads.
Leave it to Elon Musk to make the analogy between the Gorgons and OpenAI:
Never before has a corporation gone from tax-exempt charity to a $157 billion for-profit, market-paralyzing gorgon—and in just eight years.
ELON MUSK’S 2D AMENDED COMPLAINT V. SAM ALTMAN
Never before has it happened, because doing so violates almost every principle of law governing economic activity. It requires lying to donors, lying to members, lying to markets, lying to regulators, and lying to the public.
No amount of clever drafting nor surfeit of creative dealmaking can obscure what is happening here. OpenAI, Inc., co-founded by Musk as an independent charity committed to safety and transparency—and nurtured in its infancy by Musk’s money, advice, recruiting efforts and connections—is, at the direction of Altman, Brockman, and Microsoft, fast becoming a fully for-profit subsidiary of Microsoft.
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