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Setting aside the presented evidence, it feels weird for somewhat emotionally charged complaining like this to go on an official company blog. Companies are generally pretty tight-lipped about active litigation outside court documents, right? This just seems a bit amateurish, down to the title. Is public opinion about this case so important to them?

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Yea that’s what strikes me as weird too. I had to look up at the web site bar to really confirm this was OpenAI and not some employee blog site. Particularly, the whole Asian last name bit was so shoehorned in to imply Apple is racist I guess? Not something I have seen in a statement from a company like OpenAI. Just weird energy. Also, that text exchange made Apple look like a fun place to work.

Yeah this is the cloest a corporate company can get to drunk texting their ex at 3 am and reiterating how it wasn't their fault. But I mean its OpenAI, it loves drama

Haha omg what if someone at openai prompted a model to write this and the model could only come up with this unhinged version. It reads like a 3am manic text fest cuz that's what the model figures it should be.

Is there any doubt this is exactly what happened?

They might be head hunting other Apple staff and wish to control the narrative to avoid scaring them off.

I used to think there was an air of professionalism with really successful, powerful people and entities - until I read the kind of drivel that Epstein and friends were emailing each other.

Now seeing the worlds most powerful organisations act like children doesn't surprise me at all.

I guess that's why the PR industry is worth more than $100 billion.

I mean we've had Matt Mullenweg from Wordpress make various below-the-belt comments about their competitors and other companies, something tells me that they're not the only CEO who acts in such a childish manner.

I'm sure saner heads like their legal people would prevail at some point, but until then...

> Is public opinion about this case so important to them?

They have no chance to win the court case, so public opinion is the only thing they have left to fight for.

Is public opinion important to an industry whos future depends on datacenters being built for hundreds of billions of dollars, while the people all around them, whos utilities get more and more expensive in no small part because of datacenter buildouts, experience a constant cost of living crisis...

...yeah, that's a tough one...

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