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Sam Altman's testimony at Elon Musk's OpenAI trial takes odd turn

Sam Altman takes the stand at Elon Musk's trial on the future of OpenAI.

Mashable (mashable.com)

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/12/tech/sam-altman-openai-vs-elon-musk-testimony

Sounds to me as if both sides are wrong here. The initial strategy to attract investors with OpenAI switching from a non-profit structure to a profit-motivated one was more than Musk could feasibly handle.

Why did OpenAI (and Microsoft) get sued specifically by the richest person in the world? Musk is an eccentric. Some would also say that he is a dangerous individual in light of his alliance with Donald Trump/advancing the DOGE Department — and that Musk is not any different than the Howard Hughes or John D. Rockefeller of our time.

The way that Altman treats his employees leaves a fair amount of open questions. I really do not see how anybody who is a big fish or CEO wins in these sorts of accusatory lawsuits. With any company, they know that questions are brought up about control, steering money to projects so that growth can occur and sales efforts will do better, and improving brand recognition.

I think Altman has lost control of OpenAI's core mission. I also think that if Musk wins this lawsuit then he will consolidate all of OpenAI's operations into Musk's xAI brand and this online boondoogle will be 3X worse in terms of what the real-life deliverables are.

When I saw this meme online it made me think of some kind of role-playing game where #Trump is a weird character who takes on different personalities; similar to stats for a character's strength, intelligence, their dexterity, etc:

This Verge article about #AI is not an intelligently-written article.

The author makes too many assumptions about what chatbots are without ever going into specifics. One thing with the moribund/lackluster job market, and I'm excluding all of California and specifically the Bay Area: #Oregon 's job market has more or less been this "crap-tastic" in all regions within the western USA since around 1990 or perhaps 1993 with the passage of the wrecking ball on jobs called NAFTA and also challenges associated with the momentous transition to the ways and means of modern I.T. by 1999 and beyond — and the adoption of Internet-based applications that run on PC's and their networks.

There is SO much wrong with the modern work force in the western US... where should I begin, here?

Start with the fact that maybe 60% of all corporate bosses are borderline psychopaths, a lot of the wages they offer to their workers are simply terrible, and the benefits are eroding fast because the price of everything is going up while the monopolies are winning. I'm sorry, but Gen Z is not mature enough to understand these nuances in economics and in American business environments.

Gen X-aged Open Source Software hackers and programmers had desired for the momentum to shift a certain way. We were wrong about half of everything that we proposed.

I would have to say that it's all about "plan to fail, and fail to plan."

What we have in the interim, in terms of the tools at our disposal which make proper use of the elements in AI technology are really and truly pathetic. The Verge did NOT get that one part wrong.

The more young people use AI, the more they hate it

Caught between fears of job loss and social stigma, Gen Z’s opinions of AI are hitting new lows.

The Verge (www.theverge.com)