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

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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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Mr Tan was not the one who retained the Apple-issued laptop:

> Liu also failed to return an Apple-issued laptop after his departure.

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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.

Well OpenAI is offering equity to the US Government (and who knows who else privately) Tim Apple famously refused to bring manufacturing back to the US when the current president asked and play hardball on infosec. While this is a civil case, increasingly judiciary seems to be an extension of the executive. So it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

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

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That is a true statement. Here is another one:

Some people like to talk about “some people” snidely, instead of just coming out and saying “GP is bloodthirsty and gets a little thrill [etc].” Because of course, that’s what they mean, but they can’t back it up.

Just to clarify, I’m talking about you.

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

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Is there any other AI company with as much controversy as this company? - ~murdered~ (dead) employee who's mother is on a anti-sam hate campaign - ceo fired then coup's his way back into the company - conflict of interest with Microsoft Despite Anthropic's bad press, they haven't been as dishonest as this company.

> ceo fired then coup's his way back into the company Are we discussing Steve Jobs in 1985? Any time there is that much money and power involved there is going to be intense drama.

This is not drama though, it's more inline with unethical, immoral, and bad. It's indicative of company with bad character.

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Interesting how Tang Yew Tan worked at Apple for 25 years (!!) and then threw it all out for this.

who knows, maybe he had giant gambling debts or other addiction(s) or bad real estate investments and/or lost half of it all to an ex-wife first. things that Jony might be readily aware of. assuming there is more than a kernel of truth to this - and i can't imagine not, the OpenAI comms guy who responded already scrubbed his X account - it doesn't surprise me that Tan was a criminal, it's that he was such a bad criminal
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