Sam Altman claims Slack produces "fake work," while Elon Musk warns Microsoft once more.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, blasted Slack for creating "fake work" and hinted at the possibility of an AI-powered substitute. Elon Musk, however, cautioned Microsoft about OpenAI's competitiveness.

According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, a lot of "fake work" is produced via the well-known chat software Slack. Altman continued by saying that it might be replaced with an AI-powered substitute that could also do some of the functions of Microsoft Office.

Altman stated, "There are benefits about Slack," during a conversation on the Conversations with Tyler YouTube channel. The first hour of the morning and the final hour before bed, when I'm simply coping with this Slack eruption, are both kind of dreadful.

It does, in my opinion, produce a lot of phony stuff. I have a feeling that a lot of the present office productivity suite—whatever you think of, like Docs, Slides, emails, Slack, etc.—will be replaced by something new. He continued, "That will be the AI-driven version of all these things."
Elon Musk, Altman's longtime rival, had another chance to issue a warning to Microsoft after the announcement. "As I was saying, OpenAI will compete directly with Microsoft," Musk remarked in response to a video of Altman's remark.

In response to another post, Musk commented, "At this point, it's insanely suicidal for Microsoft to continue supporting OpenAI."

Elon Musk's cautions regarding Microsoft
Notably, Musk had alerted Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about OpenAI's attempt to steal a significant portion of the tech giant's market share following the GPT-5 launch earlier this year.

In a post, Musk said, "OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive."

The fun part is that people have been trying for fifty years! Nadella had replied, "You learn something new every day, and you innovate, partner, and compete."

In fact, OpenAI has been delivering more recent technologies that compete with its largest supporter, such as ChatGPT's search capabilities or the Atlas browser. But Musk has already stated that he hopes to create "Macrohard," an AI-backed competitor to Microsoft.

The billionaire also owns xAI, which creates the Grok AI chatbot, which is attempting to steal a significant portion of the AI race from companies like Microsoft. In the meanwhile, Microsoft still primarily uses OpenAI models to power a number of AI functions in its Office applications as well as Bing. However, in some of the most recent Office innovations, the corporation has started to favor Claude AI.