The United States judge presiding over the high-profile lawsuit between Elon Musk and OpenAI has urged the tech executives involved to limit their social media activity, following Musk’s recent critical posts about the ChatGPT maker’s leadership on X.
Ahead of opening statements on Tuesday, US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers advised Musk and OpenAI representatives to “control your propensity to use social media to make things worse outside this courtroom,” according to Bloomberg.
The jury is expected to hear testimony from several high-profile witnesses and review years-old emails, text messages, and corporate documents from OpenAI’s founders to decide whether the company’s leadership violated its founding principles by shifting to a for-profit model and securing billions in investment from Microsoft Corp.
On Monday, Musk amplified an April 6 post by Ronan Farrow highlighting The New Yorker reporter’s extensive investigation into OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, boosting its visibility across users’ feeds on the platform.
Musk also criticized OpenAI’s leadership, at one point referring to the CEO as “Scam Altman.”
On Tuesday in court, Musk said his remarks were in response to public statements made by OpenAI’s leadership.
“Only after they posted very publicly about this case, only then did I respond,” he said.
“What if we say this: Clean slate beginning today,” Gonzalez Rogers said.
Musk, Altman, and OpenAI President Greg Brockman reportedly all agreed to comply.
