OpenAI 请求法官驳回苹果商业秘密诉讼，称其"烂到骨子里"

OpenAI 已请求联邦法官驳回苹果公司针对 ChatGPT 制造商的里程碑式诉讼，指控其窃取商业机密，同时将这些指控描述为“毫无根据”。在昨天提交的一份驳回诉状中：https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.474095/gov.uscourts.cand.474095.59.0.pdf，OpenAI 表示，苹果公司错误地将 AI 初创公司员工的行为描述为盗窃，并将“通用”的产品开发信息归类为“商业机密”，同时补充说，苹果公司并未采取合理措施以保密这些信息。

此次驳回请求是针对苹果公司在七月提出的诉讼：/tech/964350/apple-openai-lawsuit-trade-secrets，该诉讼指控前苹果员工：/tech/964843/apple-openai-lawsuit-wildest-claims，此类员工随后加入 OpenAI，窃取机密文件以推进 OpenAI 的硬件开发计划：/news/781854/openai-chatgpt-hardware-rumors-smart-speaker-glasses-pin。OpenAI 官方的法律反驳紧随其于周二发布的一篇博客文章《苹果公司搞错了：/ai-artificial-intelligence/974914/openai-blog-response-apple-lawsuit-messages》，其中将诉讼描述为“马虎、咄咄逼人，并且奇怪地带有个人色彩”。

该博客的几个方面在 OpenAI 的驳回请求中以更正式的方式出现，声称苹果公司的案件调查不充分，建立在选择性或断章取义的沟通之上，并且“从根本上腐烂”。例如，OpenAI 声称，Chang Liu —— 一名现任 OpenAI 员工的前苹果员工，被指控在离开公司后下载苹果的机密文件 —— 只是帮助向他寻求帮助的前同事。

OpenAI 在驳回声明中表示：“苹果公司不应被允许利用一场基于无根据和借口的诉讼来弥补其在人才市场和员工保留方面的不足，以及在将 AI 技术整合到产品中的失败。OpenAI 正在构建完全新颖且与苹果截然不同的东西。OpenAI 确实有兴趣聘请最优秀的工程师、发明者、开发者和创造者 —— 其中许多人已决定离开苹果，加入 OpenAI，被公司创新且令人兴奋的工作所吸引。”

法官定于10月1日听取关于该动议的辩论。与此同时，苹果公司还在周一请求初步禁令：https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.474095/gov.uscourts.cand.474095.38.0.pdf，以防止OpenAI及诉讼中提及的员工在诉讼进行期间访问、获取、使用或披露所谓的机密信息。

OpenAI has asked a federal judge to toss out Apple’s landmark lawsuit accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing trade secrets, describing the allegations as “meritless.” In a motion filed yesterday：https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.474095/gov.uscourts.cand.474095.59.0.pdf to dismiss the complaint, OpenAI says that Apple is mischaracterizing both the actions of the AI startup’s employees as theft, and “generic” product development information as “trade secrets,” adding that Apple made no reasonable efforts to maintain such secrecy.

The dismissal request is in response to a lawsuit filed by Apple in July：/tech/964350/apple-openai-lawsuit-trade-secrets, alleging that former Apple employees：/tech/964843/apple-openai-lawsuit-wildest-claims that went on to work for OpenAI stole confidential documents to further OpenAI’s hardware development plans：/news/781854/openai-chatgpt-hardware-rumors-smart-speaker-glasses-pin. OpenAI’s official legal rebuttal follows a blog post it published on Tuesday titled “Apple is getting this wrong：/ai-artificial-intelligence/974914/openai-blog-response-apple-lawsuit-messages,” in which it described the lawsuit as “careless, aggressive, and oddly personal.”

Several aspects of that blog make a more formal appearance in OpenAI’s dismissal request, alleging that Apple’s case is poorly investigated, built on selective or out-of-context communications, and “rotten to its core.” For example, OpenAI claims that Chang Liu — a former Apple staffer now working for OpenAI who stands accused of downloading confidential files from Apple after leaving the company — was simply assisting ex-colleagues who asked him for help.

“Apple should not be permitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up for its shortcomings in the market for talent and retaining its employees, and its failures to integrate AI into its products,” OpenAI says in the dismissal filing. “OpenAI is building something entirely new and different from anything at Apple. OpenAI does have an interest in hiring the best engineers, inventors, developers and creators — many of whom have decided to leave Apple and to come to OpenAI, attracted by the innovative and exciting work the company is doing.”

The judge is set to hear arguments on the motion on October 1st. Meanwhile, Apple also asked for a preliminary injunction：https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.474095/gov.uscourts.cand.474095.38.0.pdf on Monday to prevent OpenAI and the employees named in the complaint from accessing, acquiring, using, or disclosing alleged confidential information while the lawsuit moves ahead.