Elon Musk does not use a computer, his lawyers claim
Elon Musk does not use a computer, his lawyers have claimed.
Lawyers acting for the billionaire told a California court they were 'conducting searches of Mr Musk's mobile phone, having searched his emails ... Mr Musk does not use a computer'.
The submission came as part of a legal clash between the world's richest man and the developer of ChatGPT. Both sides are seeking evidence from each other in the case.
The claim that Mr Musk does not use a computer is surprising given he has made his estimated $384bn (£282bn) fortune by running multiple technology businesses at once. Mr Musk reportedly works almost entirely from his mobile phone, preferring it to larger devices.
It also contradicts the billionaire's social media posts and past comments, which suggest he does use a PC – although mostly for gaming.
He has shared livestreams of video games, including the fantasy games Diablo III and Diablo IV, played on a computer. In May, he said he used an 'ancient PC laptop' and in 2021 said he owned a 'PC desktop with latest graphics card ... although I have a Mac too'.
In December, he posted a picture of an Aero laptop on X and said: 'This is a pic of my laptop. It's about three years old. A guy in Germany gave me this cool sticker, so I don't want to upgrade it and lose the sticker.'
In 2024, he complained in a post on X to Microsoft boss Satya Nadella about the process for setting up a new laptop.
The claim that Mr Musk does not use a computer came as part of a dispute over evidence gathering in the ChatGPT case.
Mr Musk has sued OpenAI, the Silicon Valley start-up behind the chatbot, along with its chief executive Sam Altman, accusing the company of 'betraying' its original non-profit purpose. Mr Musk, who helped set up and fund OpenAI, has accused Mr Altman of 'deceit of Shakespearean proportions'.
OpenAI denies the claims and accused Mr Musk, who cut ties with OpenAI in 2018, of using the lawsuit to boost his own AI business's prospects.
The two sides are now sparring in court over demands for documents and emails as evidence. In a legal filing, OpenAI's lawyers said: 'It is now clear that Musk and his counsel do not plan to collect any documents from Musk.'
They claimed that the billionaire's companies 'have produced zero documents: nothing from Musk's accounts; nothing from any other custodian; and no documents related to the donations Musk alleges'.
Mr Musk's lawyers said they had 'actively assisted' in procuring evidence from the billionaire and his companies, including SpaceX and Tesla. They also alleged that OpenAI's lawyers had so far failed to produce documents from investment funds controlled by Mr Altman.
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