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OpenAI Responds After Being Sued by Apple

It's rather curious to say "we have no interest in other companies' trade secrets." There's a reason they are called "trade secrets," and this is the tech industry we're talking about here. They are likely very interested in other companies' trade secrets, especially ones they are competing against and actively poaching employees from. Get ready for a fall guy and some plausible deniability sob story, with a creepy attempt at a heartwarming photo of Johnny and Sam having a chat at an animal shelter.
 
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Darmok N Jalad said:
It's rather curious to say "we have no interest in other companies' trade secrets." There's a reason they are called "trade secrets," and this is the tech industry we're talking about here. They are likely very interested in other companies' trade secrets, especially ones they are competing against and actively poaching employees from. Get ready for a fall guy and some plausible deniability sob story, with a creepy attempt at a heartwarming photo of Johnny and Sam having a chat at an animal shelter.
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Sokath, his eyes uncovered
 
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Darmok N Jalad said:
Get ready for a fall guy and some plausible deniability sob story, with a creepy attempt at a heartwarming photo of Johnny and Sam having a chat at an animal shelter.
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You better believe that Apple has proof that the whole hiring process was organized like that and that the company is rotten to its core. If they only had proof that two people or so did that, they'd just go after those two.
 
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"we are not interested in other companies' data guys we never stole anything *wink wink*"
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"We have no interest in other companies' trade secrets,"
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why not just say "We did not steal other companies' trade secrets"? oh right, because they did train all of their models on stolen data, which would include such material if it is online in the open, reading the court document, Apple has evidence from messages on physical machines that were still connected to their servers, how would OpenAI exactly refute such evidence if it is real?
 
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Not a lawyer, but if Apple can prove much of this, OpenAI is pretty screwed. Tang Tan isn’t some low-level poached engineer but the chief hardware officer there. The alleged organized malfeasance is pretty deep into the C-suite. They have to be evaluating if there’s anything in their prototypes/future devices that have a scintilla of technology Apple can trace back to these leaks. It will cost Apple less to drag this out in court, pushing OpenAI’s hardware ambitions to a later launch, than to settle this.
 
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Falco McGregor said:
Not a lawyer, but if Apple can prove much of this, OpenAI is pretty screwed. Tang Tan isn’t some low-level poached engineer but the chief hardware officer there. The alleged organized malfeasance is pretty deep into the C-suite. They have to be evaluating if there’s anything in their prototypes/future devices that have a scintilla of technology Apple can trace back to these leaks. It will cost Apple less to drag this out in court, pushing OpenAI’s hardware ambitions to a later launch, than to settle this.
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Right, I think an underappreciated aspect of this suit is that it stops OpenAI dead in their tracks in several ways. Unless they want to for double jeopardy.
 
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