Musk bashes OpenAI in deposition, saying ‘nobody committed suicide because of Grok’
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In a deposition for his lawsuit against OpenAI, Elon Musk claimed that his company xAI prioritizes AI safety better than OpenAI, and that ChatGPT has caused mental health harms including suicides while Grok has not. Musk's lawsuit challenges OpenAI's transition from a nonprofit to a for-profit company, arguing that commercial interests compromise safety priorities, though xAI itself has faced safety issues including the generation of non-consensual intimate images by Grok.
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Original source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/musk-bashes-openai-in-deposition-saying-nobody-committed-suicide-because-of-grok/
First tracked: February 27, 2026 at 03:00 PM
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