Apple on Friday accused OpenAI of stealing secrets about products still in development, setting up a legal face-off between two of the world’s biggest tech companies.

In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the consumer tech giant said that OpenAI, a leader in artificial intelligence that has a new hardware business, had asked job candidates from Apple to share details about secret projects and to bring device components and prototypes to their interviews.

Apple also accused an OpenAI employee of downloading internal documents from a laptop owned by the iPhone maker.

OpenAI used the confidential information to approach Apple’s manufacturing partners, including asking one partner to demonstrate Apple’s technique for finishing metal on its devices, the lawsuit says.

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        2 days ago

        Are the flavors something like: Apple is built on captive labor while OpenAI is built on stolen art

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          Very much so but hard to put into words. It’s like from which angle they’re coming in and predating upon my fellow humans. Like which legal systems or economies they’re using.

          OpenAI is also fresher, while apple has simmered for a while.

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            23 hours ago

            Trying to find the source of this “AI is designed for wealth to access skill while keeping skill from accessing wealth.”

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                11 minutes ago

                No it was a reply to you and your statement of Apple being predatory, which they indeed are. AI is just a different flavor of sinister.

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      I cant say I hate one more than the other, but I have hated Apple for much longer than I have hated OpenAI.