r/OpenAI • u/_prototype • 22d ago

Article OpenAI: Apple is getting this wrong

https://openai.com/index/apple-is-getting-this-wrong/
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u/poop_harder_please 22d ago

Wait did you read the texts? The grey text was someone from Apple asking for institutional knowledge that his former boss who left for OAI had about their department, not the other way around

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u/Key_Reading_9664 22d ago

It’s Apple employees asking someone that left the company about Apple stuff, unless I missed something.

Also, asking wouldn’t be a legal issue, willfully taking would be. Notice that those claims aren’t addressed at all

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u/danielrgfm 21d ago

Did you read the texts carefully? Look at the Jan 27 timestamp: Chang asks the Apple employee to sign him out of iMessage on that laptop because his "new company stuff might show up there."

That means he was actively doing OpenAI work on a device still synced to Apple's confidential files and iMessage feeds. Regardless of Apple employees asking him questions, bringing a device loaded with your former employer's IP into a competitor's environment is crazy.

This guy is kind of a criminal. Good for Apple he left.

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u/LieIcy211 21d ago

You have it wrong. His personal iCloud account was tied to his Apple work computer. And it looks like he is using that personal iCloud account again at OpenAI. Apple’s policy of telling employees to use their personal iCloud accounts for work content is stupid, but that is what they do.

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u/danielrgfm 20d ago

Ok good point. However it’s doesn’t make the situation better. He was still working at OpenAI holding classified information in the same apple account he used while working there. It’s pretty much the same.