ChatGPT is Eating the World: Elon Musk and Sam Altman are at war. “Musk’s two lawsuits against OpenAI could impair its defense in copyright lawsuits. Elon Musk’s tort lawsuit against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI for alleged fraud (in soliciting his funds and help in starting a nonprofit only later to convert to a for-profit company in a bait-and-switch) may end up having collateral damage on OpenAI’s defense against the many copyright lawsuits in the MDL Litigation.  Already OpenAI has had to produce to the plaintiffs in the In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation the deposition transcript of Ilya Sutskever, former OpenAI co-founder, from Musk’s lawsuit, as well as two memos Sutskever wrote and were discovered in the Musk suit. And now the plaintiffs are seeking more: the diary of co-founder Greg Brockman discovered in the Musk lawsuit as well. That diary of Brockman contained the closest to “smoking gun” evidence that Judge Gonzalez-Rogers already ruled provided circumstantial evidence to support Musk’s claim of fraud, at least on one interpretation of the diary…”