OpenAI Responds After Being Sued by Apple

[Smartuser]

Transformers (the GPT kind) were based on studies done by the University of Bremen and the University of Montreal. Not even invented by Google;

Any idea ever is based on previous ideas.

 

[maxoakland]

OpenAI stole millions of songs, books, albums, photos, pieces of art, internet comments, open source codebases, and everything else they could get their hands on

Apple partnered with them anyway

Now all of a sudden thieving is a problem?

This is why they say “lie down with dogs and you’ll get fleas”. This is karma.

 

[Evildaughter]

"We have no interest in other companies’ trade secrets[, but we do have interest in employees, who are exposed to those secrets]." There, I fixed it.

 

[Evildaughter]

Since everybody’s trying to think up cringeworthy analogies…

It’d be like Apple publicly advertising the Mac Studio on apple.com as an ARM-based machine “Built for Apple Intelligence”. Someone else then builds an aluminium desktop with an ARM CPU and advertises it as “Built for ChatGPT”. Apple couldn’t reasonably call the existence of an ARM desktop in an aluminium case a commercial secret when they’d already published the underlying concept themselves.

The interesting question isn’t whether competitors can build similar products (or whether anybody trusts big tech). It’s whether any genuinely confidential information was taken and used.

The thing is, commercial secret isn’t an aluminium box with Apple unIntelligence (because Siri is yet to be released fully), or ChatGPT, or whatever cloud or on-device LLM is out there; it’s what was the thought process and research behind it to make it work, and Apple isn’t the type of company to throw source code, datasheets, and electrical schematics for its products out in the open.