Sam Altman’s OpenAI, the AI juggernaut behind ChatGPT, has been accused by at least seven nonprofit organizations of using aggressive legal tactics and its massive financial resources to intimidate and silence its critics.
NBC News reports that OpenAI, the world’s highest-valued AI startup, is facing allegations from at least seven nonprofit organizations claiming that the company has used overly broad subpoenas as a form of legal intimidation. The nonprofits, which have been critical of OpenAI’s ongoing efforts to restructure from a nonprofit to a for-profit public benefit corporation, say the subpoenas appear to be designed to extract private information about the company’s critics.
The subpoenas, which are part of the legal battle between OpenAI and Musk, suggest that the subpoena