Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
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Apple is cutthroat in business too.Tony Fadell, the inventor of the iPod and co-inventor of the iPhone, and later Nest founder, commented this in Stratechery about the lawsuit when filed:"This is Apple’s typical tactic to scare Apple employees — either former or current. I heard this lawsuit was driven by the Apple board.Steve threatened to file a…
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OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "meritless" and that their employees were just doing generic product development info. Not exactly the most transparent corporate behavior. {
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This entire OpenAI hardware thing is a vanity project by Sam Altman wanting really bad to be Steve Jobs. Just look at this comical announcment photo and letter from last year https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/. If this lawsuit results in the whole thing getting canned it might actually be good for OpenAI because it'll save them from pouring further…
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Saw this in the legal filing:"he took advantage of an authentication bug to gain access to Apple’s confidential third-party cloud repository to download at least thirty-seven highly sensitive and proprietary technical documents related to, among other things, Apple’s hardware technologies and research and development."Anybody know what they mean…
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A lot of the discussion here is pretty surprising. Saying "The information is in people's heads" is wild considering the allegations involve taking screenshots of documents, not just fond memories of working on hardware. Apple deserves a lot of criticism for how it's acted when losing employees, but these allegations are about a lot more than that.
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> And, [OpenAI] said that Apple didn’t admit to the claim that the “residual access” allowing former employees to access Apple’s system was the result of poor security procedures on Apple’s part.Sam "I hack others by mistake" Altman dunking on the security practice of others is funny, is there any glass house he won't go to?
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I have never gone from one job to another where the new job was in the same exact industry I was in prior, but I'm glad I never have to be thrown into such a scenario where I'm accused of taking confidential data, I can only imagine for some employers that makes you a red flag, very dangerous territory to be in.
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OpenAIs response:https://openai.com/index/apple-is-getting-this-wrong/Personally, this reads a bit ridiculous in the face of what Apple is claiming but time will tell.
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Really don't like all the drama around this. Should be dealt with in court, not tried in the press.Both sides should learn to remain silent and work the case through legal channels.