ChatGPT developer OpenAI is asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit by tech billionaire Elon Musk mainly on grounds that it’s harassment.

Musk, an OpenAI co-founder, has brought a number of lawsuits against the company since March, ranging from fraud to violation of the RICO Act, as a part of the ongoing feud between himself and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Musk subsequently launched his own AI platform, Grok, on X.

The motion filed Tuesday by OpenAI in Oakland, California, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that Musk’s claims lack sufficient legal basis and amount to harassment. “This suit is the latest move in Elon Musk’s increasingly blusterous campaign to harass OpenAI for his own competitive advantage,” it said.

Musk co-founded OpenAI in December 2015 with Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba. He left the company in 2018.

Musk’s lawsuit alleges breaches of contract, fraud, and violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). RICO violations include fraud, bribery, extortion, or money laundering as part of an ongoing criminal enterprise. OpenAI denied

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Author: Jason Nelson