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Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets [🎁 nytimes gift link] (www.nytimes.com)
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Apple on Friday accused OpenAI of stealing secrets about products still in development, setting up a legal face-off between two of the world’s biggest tech companies.

In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the consumer tech giant said that OpenAI, a leader in artificial intelligence that has a new hardware business, had asked job candidates from Apple to share details about secret projects and to bring device components and prototypes to their interviews.

Apple also accused an OpenAI employee of downloading internal documents from a laptop owned by the iPhone maker.

OpenAI used the confidential information to approach Apple’s manufacturing partners, including asking one partner to demonstrate Apple’s technique for finishing metal on its devices, the lawsuit says.

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Apple on Friday accused OpenAI of stealing

That's pretty much OpenAI's modus operandi, is it not? Like, they've stolen from everyone else on the planet, why did Apple think they were special? It's like they invited the Hamburgler to their BBQ and are shocked when all the sliders disappear.

Illustrated

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's scraping data, which should be considered stealing, and then there's asking people to steal company data as part of an interview process.

This is actual industrial espionage. If true, it could be a big deal.

[–] MrKoyun@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

I fucking hope it is.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Apple is very litigious when it comes to their products, and has the capital and the best lawyers in the world available for them to call on.

The legal fees on this will cost millions.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

They ended up losing to Google on touch screens, but this seems like way more of a problem.