They literally do have hard evidence. They have records of an employee (Chang Liu) who left for OpenAI copying dozens and dozens of files off of their server after he left.

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aprilthird2021 an hour ago | parent [-]

That's not enough though. He could have been acting rogue or for some other reason. That alone won't win in court

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Danox an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Among 40 ex Apple employees come on at least five or six of them probably crossed the line in their enthusiasm to get the big bucks.

If it was a small number, four or five total, maybe, but not 40.

	▲	JumpCrisscross an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Also, Apple confronted OpenAI about LOL Liu. OpenAI’s response wasn’t to fire him, conduct an investigation and confidentially settle with Apple. It was to go cold.

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iAMkenough 33 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

"acting rogue" but faced no action from OpenAI after this came to light