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Clean-room design isn’t a thing in manufacturing.
> Clean-room design isn’t a thing in manufacturing What are you basing this on? Source?!? I've personally done this in an aerospace context.
FT frames this as some aggressive escalation tactic, but document retention letters are extremely standard practice. At this point they're basically a formality, as any former Apple employee at OpenAI really ought to know by now that they could get dragged into this. Hold letters can be aggressive if you send them before you've even filed a complaint, but if anything, Apple is late to the party with these.
Something similar happened to me when I left Microsoft for Apple (I moved from the Visual Studio team to the Xcode team). MS spent six months trying to prove I'd taken "industry secrets" with me. I hadn't. The entire thing felt like a personal attack and was extremely stressful. It sounds like, in this case, Apple has hard proof that documents were stolen.
Though in this case, OpenAI may have leveled up the game a bit too much.
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He has no taste anymore. He was right once, made too much money, and lost touch with everything. Now he's a tasteless boomer.
Even that's a stretch. Without Dieter Rams Braun designs, he likely wouldn't have anything
Especially the fruity era that brought apple back from the brink was not Rams inspired at all. And it was pretty genius. I still see his work from that time as a retro icon in hipster coffee shops. I owned a blue iBook from that time and it was really comfortable to work on due to its smooth edges (though carrying it by its handle had a bit too much of a handbag look)
One thing I do criticise him for is that he's always been form over function. The puck mouse is one good example from that era, anyone who has used it will understand that round is not a good shape for a mouse.
But originality, yes. He was inspired sure but nobody exists in a vacuum.
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It's not the least bit true, of course.
According to Ferrari it is…
So it won't be Ferrari SpA who applies the pressure, it'll be their dealers. Who, as always, are "independent businesses" over which the company has "no control."
Same thing that played out when Maserati first returned to the US market under Ferrari distribution, basically.
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Every Wall Street bank is run by guys who get that there are rules to this game and you don't squeeze the unsophisticated the same way. The same can't be said for Silicon Valleys contribution to the brokerage world.
is this a joke?
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> Stealing from the one company that has managed to court success makes a lot of sense. It makes a lot of sense to get into a massive legal battle with one of the most deep-pocketed companies on the planet?
I don't think they intended for that part to happen. Once that becomes an eventuality, it is obviously no longer a good idea, but you don't get to know if you hit the jackpot before you pull that lever.
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Among 40 ex Apple employees come on at least five or six of them probably crossed the line in their enthusiasm to get the big bucks. If it was a small number, four or five total, maybe, but not 40.
Also, Apple confronted OpenAI about LOL Liu. OpenAI’s response wasn’t to fire him, conduct an investigation and confidentially settle with Apple. It was to go cold.
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It is ambiguous still at this stage though. There's no proof he used this info at his job or that he was directed to take it by anyone (he may have thought it helpful to his career in a way OpenAI never asked for or even invited).
But he stole it, no? What's ambiguous about that?