The OpenAI lawsuit became a master class in what not to put in writing

As private messages from Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, and other tech leaders spilled into public view, the trial underscored a growing reality of corporate life: nothing stays private forever.

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BY Chris Stokel-Walker

Elon Musk’s loss in his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI, decided on Monday by a jury and upheld by a judge, wasn’t the only damaging revelation to emerge from the California courtroom. The two-week trial also punctured the carefully managed public images of some of the most prominent figures shaping AI for hundreds of millions of people.

Whether it was Musk’s combative texts to Altman........

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