Elon Musk Private Message Threatens OpenAI President Before Court Hearing: Will Make You Most Hated Person in America by End of the Week

According to Perceive Beating monitoring, OpenAI CEO Greg Brockman revealed in a recent court filing that Musk had sent a private message threatening to ruin their reputation on the eve of the trial. As they discussed the possibility of a settlement, Brockman suggested both parties drop their respective charges. Musk then refused and replied, "Before this weekend, you and Sam will be the most hated people in America. If you insist, so be it."

Due to the usually confidential nature of settlement negotiations and the failure of OpenAI's lawyers to timely raise the issue during Musk's testimony last week, presiding Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers denied the request to admit this information as evidence. Brockman is expected to testify in court on Monday.

In the previous week's trial, Musk's legal team presented Brockman's private journal from nearly a decade ago as key evidence. In the journal, Brockman had asked himself, "Financially, what could make me $1 billion?" and noted that a promise to Musk to maintain a non-profit model while planning a for-profit transition would be "a lie." OpenAI's lawyers countered that these sentences were taken out of context, masking the context of the company's early brainstorming when it was extremely cash-strapped. The lawsuit, initiated by Musk, seeks hundreds of billions of dollars in damages, the removal of Altman and Brockman, and the reversal of OpenAI's for-profit restructuring completed last October.