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Happened at a (large) company I worked for in the past. A devops guy stole the DB ahead of going to work with a rival, he was caught and the rival of course wanted nothing to do with it. I'm not sure of his fate but it couldn't have been much fun.

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> the rival of course wanted nothing to do with it

The key difference here seems to be that OpenAI very much wants something to do with it.

It's almost laughable how their behavior aligns with the "Scam Altman" snarky insult.

That might be the most embarrassing implication for OpenAI out of the whole affair: That OpenAI, supposedly one of the vanguards in AI, saw a need to appropriate intellectual property of Apple, supposedly a complete laggard in that field.

Were they trying to get Apple's AI IP? I haven't followed that closely, but it seems like a lot of it has been around hardware design, not AI.

it doesn't seem like they want apple's ai secrets, they want apple's electrical engineering secrets for building physical devices

Happens occasionally at big corporations, even the bloodsucking vampire. Best to distance yourself from such employees - lest they will do to you what they have done to others.

The difference is, relative to OpenAi they have standards and morals.

In this case there is a big chance he was hired by OpenAI because of that - or even was asked to do it.

A mature organization does not want the liability and if contacted by previous employer with evidence of these kinds of allegations, immediately gives said employees the boot.

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