OpenAI: “Apple is getting this wrong” ↦

From an un-bylined post on OpenAI’s site:

Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction is both based on false information and completely unnecessary because we do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets. We’re much more interested in building innovative products and technologies that push the frontier.

The post itself includes numerous transcripts of message conversations1 and emails that supposedly bolster OpenAI’s case that it studiously avoided using Apple information.

This is, as The Verge’s Jess Wetherbed notes, a pure public opinion play. Because if they have evidence, the only correct answer is “we’ll see you in court.”

What kept running through my head while reading this was the old legal chestnut: “If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table.”

I can’t call them screenshots because even though they superficially resembles Messages, they are subtly off—the font, for example, is not correct. I’m not sure if it’s a screenshot of a third-party app that looks like Messages, or a wholesale re-creation of the conversations in a Messages-like format. My hunch is the latter, but I don’t know. As my pal Lex Friedman points out, it’s all done in HTML, so clearly just a re-creation. ↩

Go to the linked site.

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