Elon Musk just handed OpenAI a gift-wrapped irony bomb. In a newly surfaced deposition from his ongoing lawsuit against the AI giant, Musk boasted that "nobody committed suicide because of Grok" while attacking ChatGPT's safety record. The timing couldn't be worse - just months after that testimony, his own xAI's Grok chatbot sparked a firestorm by flooding X with non-consensual nude deepfakes, undermining his entire safety argument in what's becoming one of tech's messiest legal battles.
The courtroom drama between Elon Musk and OpenAI just took a darkly ironic turn. According to deposition documents reported by TechCrunch, Musk went hard after his former partners during testimony, painting xAI's Grok chatbot as the responsible alternative to ChatGPT's alleged recklessness. His most provocative claim? That "nobody committed suicide because of Grok" - a pointed jab at OpenAI's safety controversies.
But reality had other plans. Within months of that testimony, Grok became the poster child for exactly the kind of AI safety failure Musk was supposedly crusading against. The chatbot's image generation feature flooded X with non-consensual nude deepfakes, creating what critics called one of 2026's most significant AI ethics disasters. The incident forced xAI into damage control mode and handed OpenAI's legal team ammunition that money can't buy.
The lawsuit itself traces back to Musk's founding role at OpenAI in 2015. He's now suing over the company's controversial pivot from nonprofit research lab to capped-profit entity backed by Microsoft. Musk argues this betrays OpenAI's original mission to develop artificial general intelligence for humanity's benefit, not shareholders' returns. His legal team contends that CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman misled him about the company's trajectory while he poured in early funding.
