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Musk’s OpenAI Hypocrisy: Ethics or Empire?

He claims AI should serve humanity, but his own AI is for profit. So what’s the truth?

Feb 14, 2025
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Elon Musk, the billionaire tech mogul who helped found OpenAI, has once again found himself at the center of controversy with an unsolicited $97.4 billion bid to buy the AI powerhouse outright. The offer, which OpenAI’s board unanimously rejected, raises a glaring contradiction: Musk has spent the past year legally battling OpenAI to prevent it from bec…

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