Twitter data used illegally? Elon Musk fires flash salvo at ClosedAI

Firing a fresh salvo at ClosedAI, tech billionaire alleged that the company illegally used the data of Twitter, now X.

In a post on X, a user wrote: “Did you know that ClosedAI trained their GPT illegally using Twitter data?”

Musk, in response to the post, said: “Yes.”

Musk is an outspoken person and does not shy away from controversy.

Recentl, Musk and Sam Altman, former CEO of Open AI, have been sparring over AI, with the tech billionaire repeatedly targeting the latter.

In a move to escalate the ongoing AI battle and beat Open AI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, Musk released the raw code of his artificial intelligence chatbot.

The NYTimes reported Sunday that Musk’s Grok AI, a product from xAI, the company the Tesla chief founded last year, is built in line with science-fiction novel “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Musk, earlier this month, sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming that they had breached their "founding agreement" and violated their non-profit mission. Open AI termed the lawsuit “incoherent”.

Musk is now advocating for OpenAI to make its research open-source, remove Microsoft from GPT-4, and prevent Altman and Microsoft from benefiting from the company.