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Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

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"Whenever I leave a company I make sure..." But its also that companies responsibility to ensure that the employer doesn't take anything. Apple know how to use MDM on Apple laptops, why wasn't the device locked and located.

what part of "Mr. Tan warns them not to tell Apple that they have taken jobs at OpenAI, so they can stay at Apple as long as they can." did you miss?

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Wait, who is “we”? Why are you so invested in enforcing Apple’s IP rights?

Some people care about justice in general? Also, normalizing stealing IP is only going to have bad consequences for everyone.

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A company that behaves like this in one area, cannot be trusted in any area. Any enterprise that endorses/allows OpenAI products to be used is taking a big risk.

This is only like the 12th reason not to trust OpenAI. The culture starts from the top

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This is going to be interesting. Only because both companies have access to billions and infinite lawyers.

Apples billions are in cash OpenAIs billions are in IOUs to Nvidia

IPO has entered the chat.

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OpenAI is about to get ROCKED on this. From this report, this looks open and shut. Apple has basically infinite money and incredible lawyers. Not sure what OpenAI can counter with unless they have clear, hard evidence this hasn’t been happening.

What kind of repercussions will OpenAI face?

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Appalling.

It is but it is the Silicon Valley way and business way for many. Steamroll and do whatever it takes to win and be successful. Morals what are those?

These companies are big enough (especially financially) that I'm really surprised that they do not have their own FBI/CIA/NSA departments in the world of corporate espionage.

Re: Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

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Hot take, but Apple has done the same and worse to many other companies when they could. Of course Apple can sue and they will probably settle some amount with OpenAI, but acting like this is not commonplace in today’s business environment, and OpenAI is uniquely worse at stealing corporate secrets is laughable. Especially considering Apple’s famous history!

> Apple has done the same and worse to many other companies when they could The closest involved Apple selling Xerox pre-IPO shares [1]. And there are zero allegations any PARC employees who moved to Apple with confidential information the this has gone down. > acting like this is not commonplace in today’s business environment It's not. It's why it gets litigated and criminally charged. I won't disagree that there i…

Hmmm it does seem like this seems much worse than what I thought of Apple doing (like stealing the idea for a mouse and GUI from Xerox), the best I could find is Qualcomm claiming Apple stole its modem code and gave it to Intel. That was settled before trial.

This however does actually seem far worse, reminds me more of Waymo vs Uber, people can go to jail.

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