Meta is asking California Attorney General Rob Bonta to block OpenAI’s planned transition from a non-profit to for-profit entity.

In a letter sent to Bonta’s office this week, Meta says that OpenAI “should not be allowed to flout the law by taking and reappropriating assets it built as a charity and using them for potentially enormous private gains.”

The letter, which was first reported on by The Wall Street Journal and you can read in full below, goes so far as to say that Meta believes Elon Musk is “qualified and well positioned to represent the interests of Californians in this matter.” Meta supporting Musk’s fight against OpenAI is notable given that Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were talking about literally fighting in a cage match just last year.

      • Sticky Fedi
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        -13 months ago

        Meta sucks, but here they are very right hypocritical immoral*

        Don’t worry fam I got you

        • Phoenixz
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          13 months ago

          Being a hypocrite doesn’t automatically make you wrong

    • masterofn001
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      93 months ago

      Ironic they are demanding government regulation / interdiction.

    • @vga@sopuli.xyz
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      3 months ago

      Meta is just trying to protect their intellectual property, meaning everything anyone has created on any of their platforms.

      Yep, they own all of it, including every single comment anyone has written on Whatsapp.

      • Dominic
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        33 months ago

        they’re also making their own ai and don’t want openai to keep being better