Musk Seeks Up to $134B Damages from OpenAI, Microsoft

31 pointsposted 20 days ago
by SanjayMehta
(bloomberg.com)

12 Comments

KellyCriterion

20 days ago

Well, the US legal system is that broken, I see him with high chances of winning, somehow? (like "we give you 50% of what you are asking for but shut up now")

scrubs

20 days ago

For comparison purposes, the defendants should argue the valuation is what it is because musk is not in it. Consequently at worst it's a few millions.

rand846633

20 days ago

If you are confident that you can reach arbitrary judgments in about 1% of all cases, maybe via corruption, political influence or just random arbitrariness of court decisions, would this mean the expected value of this suit is approximately 1.3B usd minus ~10m legal fees?

refurb

20 days ago

Expected value calculations are terrible unless applied to a situation of hundreds or thousands of outcomes.

Otherwise you be stupid NOT to buy a lottery ticket each week.

moralestapia

20 days ago

The expected value of a lottery ticket is lower than its nominal value, for obvious reasons.

I agree with your point, though.

jondwillis

20 days ago

Well there’s potential counter suit or court order to pay legal fees of the other party that might affect the profitability. I am not a lawyer

nutjob2

20 days ago

No because penalty amounts are routinely slashed to a tiny fraction of the original claim.

fakedang

20 days ago

Yes and in this case, it's not even that much an arbitrary judgement. I don't like the man but Musk has far more standing to go against Microsoft and OpenAI because the shenanigans they pulled were just that much more brazen.

otterley

20 days ago

IAAL (not legal advice) and find your comment confusing: first, because standing is a question of whether you can even have your complaint heard by a court; and second, because “brazenness” doesn’t necessarily make a case stronger.

user

20 days ago

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