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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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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 95 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Apple accuses Data Scraper Inc. of scraping data.

[–] CovertOperative@piefed.zip 43 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

This appears to go quite a bit beyond scraping data.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I know of a bunch of Apple folks (through a family friend) who went to open AI early on for big pay raises, but said it sucked there and planned to cash out after a year or 2. I wonder if they’re on anyone’s radar. Gonna ask next time I see them.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago

Yeah ironically OpenAI is stealing hardware secrets here it sounds like

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Youre right; its scraping data owned by someone with lots of money and lawyers.

[–] Thaurin@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This is not about scraping data.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly. Comments from people not reading the article are not uncommon, but these haven't even read the synopsis included in the post.

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world -3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Often, the subject of conversations drift or expand to adjacent and related subjects. I have seen so many of these comment police posts trying to constrain the comments to the point where essentially they're just summarizing the article, and I dont understand why.

In my case, I was replying to the previous poster, not the article. In his case, I dont know what his intentions were, but I also don't care whether he read it for the context of the tiny thread it was in. I was responding to the comment he made in that thread.

You can even make your own thread if you don't like this one! Give it a whirl! You can engage with whatever content you want, or make your own. Theres a secret 3rd option, too: you can choose not to engage with it if you dont like it.

I dont think we need 2 comment cops to write us a comment moving violation though. You can cover more ground if you split up and harangue twice as many people at a time.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

tldr. Just like you and the article.

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago

Its amazing that you can infer my knowledge and actions without knowing or reading about anything I've done or said.