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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(14,735 posts)
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 02:19 AM 16 hrs ago

Elon Musk told a federal court on Wednesday that he now considers himself "a fool"

Elon Musk told a federal court on Wednesday that he now considers himself "a fool" for bankrolling OpenAI's early years, as his lawsuit against the artificial intelligence company and its leaders played out in a California courtroom. On the stand, Musk said he put roughly $38 million into what he believed was a nonprofit meant to advance AI for the public good, the Wall Street Journal reports, only to see it become "an $800 billion company." He has accused CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman of persuading him to donate tens of millions of dollars under charitable pretenses, later turning the organization into a for-profit operation. "They should not get rich off a nonprofit. That's not right," Musk testified Thursday, per CNBC.

https://www.newser.com/story/388253/musk-testifies-he-was-a-fool-who-was-misled-over-openai.html

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Elon Musk told a federal court on Wednesday that he now considers himself "a fool" (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd 16 hrs ago OP
Don't sell yourself short, Eloon -misanthroptimist 13 hrs ago #1
OMG! It is becoming self-aware. Midnight Writer 11 hrs ago #2
Just now realized that? tanyev 11 hrs ago #3
Among other self-aware descriptors, ... Wuddles440 10 hrs ago #4
We could have told him he is a fool NameAlreadyTaken 9 hrs ago #5
Aww ... did someone take advantage of the poor little illegal immigrant white supremacist nepo baby ketamine addict ? eppur_se_muova 3 hrs ago #6
Finally . . . I agree with him on something. Vinca 3 hrs ago #7

-misanthroptimist

(1,743 posts)
1. Don't sell yourself short, Eloon
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 06:01 AM
13 hrs ago

There are multiple reasons that you are a fool.

(If the Cybertruck isn't a cry for help, I don't know what is.)

eppur_se_muova

(42,256 posts)
6. Aww ... did someone take advantage of the poor little illegal immigrant white supremacist nepo baby ketamine addict ?
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 03:36 PM
3 hrs ago

Truly, it's the pale and the poor who suffer first.

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