A legal battle between Apple a OpenAI it's starting to get more and more interesting. Apple He has now presented new information to the court, which he describes as "shocking evidence" and which is intended to support his claim that former employeesancand carried away from Apple confidential materials and subsequently used them in their work for OpenAIThis time, it's not just about assumptions – Apple refers to the initial results of the forensic analysis MacBookwith former engineer Chang Liu.
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Liu worked in Apple eight years as a senior system electrical engineer and in January this year he moved to OpenAI. Apple He is now accused, among other things, of downloading a confidential electrical circuit diagram after his departure and subsequently actually using it while working for his new employer.
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He should have used the confidential scheme with AI as well
According to Apple Liu used the schematic in March in the LTspice program, which is designed to simulate electronic circuits. In addition, the company said that the files found during the investigation show that his AI agent learned to control LTspice, analyze the results and adjust the simulation parameters. It is the involvement of AI that is Apple particularly problematic. The company argues that if trade secrets get into an AI agent or model that learns from them, subsequent use of that information can be very difficult, if not impossible, to completely remove.
Forensic analysis was to reveal something even more serious. Apple tvIt is said that when Liu learned of the internal investigation, he sent a colleague from OpenAI instructions leading according to Apple to destroy forensic evidence. The company also claims that Liu and others in OpenAI were aware of his continued unauthorized access to external cloudnew storage Apple.
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Apple now wants to get it too Mac mini, on which Liu was originally supposed to run the simulation. The data from it was sent via iCloud subsequently synchronized to the one under investigation MacBooku. OpenAI has long denied the accusations and is trying to get the lawsuit off the table. In its previous response, it claimed, among other things, that the residual approach of former employeesancto some data was related to insufficient removal of accesses on the part of AppleWhether Apple whether the theft of a trade secret is actually proven will, of course, be decided by the court. New data from MacBookbut they certainly don't look like something that would OpenAI wanted to see in the ongoing dispute.
