OpenAI CEO Sam Altman fired back at Elon Musk on Tuesday after Musk posted on X warning people not to use ChatGPT, linking it to nine suicide deaths.
Altman didn’t hold back. He called out Musk’s claim as misleading and flipped the criticism back, pointing to Tesla’s Autopilot, which has been linked to more than 50 deaths, SFist reported.
“Sometimes you complain about ChatGPT being too restrictive, and then in cases like this you claim it’s too relaxed,” Altman wrote in a three paragraph tweet. “Apparently more than 50 people have died from crashes related to Autopilot. I only ever rode in a car using it once, some time ago, but my first thought was that it was far from a safe thing for Tesla to have released.”
He also jabbed at Musk’s chatbot project Grok, saying the Tesla CEO “shouldn’t be talking when it comes to guardrails.”
The feud comes as Musk sues OpenAI, claiming the company abandoned its nonprofit mission. Musk is reportedly seeking up to $134 billion in damages.
