Which artificial intelligence chatbot did a better job creating an image? One prominent CEO’s response may surprise you.Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made a shocking accusation against ChatGPT during a Technology Business Programming Network (TBPN) interview last Thursday. He said that the subscription version of ChatGPT refused to modify an image of him and the chatbot’s parent company CEO Sam Altman. So, Benioff asked X owner Elon Musk’s AI chatbot to create the image instead.
Benioff said the chatbot refused the requested image because of an alleged “copyright infringement” given that both Benioff and Altman were wearing “conference necklaces” that Benioff wanted removed. He asserted that Grok, owned by free speech advocate Musk, had no problem creating the clean image of the two men that Benioff used to promote a partnership between Salesforce and OpenAI.
BREAKING: @Benioff used Grok for viral image with @sama pic.twitter.com/hVQEuDZH6C
— TBPN (@tbpn) October 16, 2025
The irony? In his X post, Benioff called ChatGPT—the AI he said refused to create the image for his X post—the “world’s best AI.”
