Apple shares ‘shocking evidence’ against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI

苹果提交“惊人证据”，指控前员工窃取公司数据并提供给 OpenAI

In its lawsuit against OpenAI, Apple filed what it calls “shocking evidence” to bolster its allegations that former employees stole trade secrets for OpenAI’s benefit. These new details emerged after the legal counsel for former Apple employee Chang Liu — who now works at OpenAI — handed over Liu’s old Apple work laptop for investigation earlier this month. 在针对 OpenAI 的诉讼中，苹果公司提交了其所谓的“惊人证据”，以支持其关于前员工为 OpenAI 的利益窃取商业机密的指控。这些新细节是在前苹果员工刘畅（Chang Liu，现就职于 OpenAI）的法律顾问于本月初移交其旧苹果工作笔记本电脑进行调查后浮出水面的。

Apple now alleges that Liu used a confidential Apple circuit schematic in his work at OpenAI, as well as a tool that shares a name with an internal Apple engineering application. The company claims that OpenAI was “well-aware” of Liu’s access to Apple data, and that Liu enlisted OpenAI colleague Yu-Ting Peng to help destroy evidence in June when he learned that Apple was investigating him. 苹果公司现指控刘畅在 OpenAI 的工作中使用了苹果公司的机密电路原理图，以及一款与苹果内部工程应用程序同名的工具。苹果声称，OpenAI 对刘畅访问苹果数据的情况“非常清楚”，并且当刘畅得知苹果正在调查他时，他在 6 月份拉拢了 OpenAI 的同事彭宇婷（Yu-Ting Peng，音译）协助销毁证据。

“The MacBook represents the very limited information Defendants provided so far (and only after weeks of delay), and shows Apple is not conducting ‘fishing expeditions’ but that its trade secrets are being used and evidence is being destroyed,” the filing reads. While this new evidence is redacted from public view, past filings from Apple have included text messages from Liu — which he punctuated with “crying laughing” emojis — showing he was aware that he still had access to Apple files. 诉讼文件写道：“这台 MacBook 代表了被告迄今为止提供的极其有限的信息（且是在拖延数周后才提供的），这表明苹果并非在进行‘钓鱼式取证’，而是其商业机密确实正在被使用，且证据正在被销毁。”虽然这些新证据在公开版本中被遮盖，但苹果此前提交的文件中曾包含刘畅的短信记录——他在短信中使用了“哭笑不得”的表情符号——显示他清楚自己仍能访问苹果的文件。

OpenAI has previously defended Liu by saying that he only accessed Apple files after he stopped working there in order to help former colleagues who asked for his assistance. “Apple now tries to shift the blame to ‘residual access,’ but they also don’t disclose that this is a common issue with Apple which is caused by them failing to properly manage system access when people leave,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post earlier this month. But Apple claims that Liu had continued access because he “exploited a rare, previously unknown authentication bug.” OpenAI 此前曾为刘畅辩护称，他是在离职后才访问苹果文件的，目的是为了帮助寻求协助的前同事。OpenAI 在本月初的一篇博文中写道：“苹果现在试图将责任推卸给‘残留访问权限’，但他们没有披露的是，这是一个苹果常见的系统问题，原因是他们在员工离职时未能妥善管理系统访问权限。”但苹果公司声称，刘畅之所以能持续访问，是因为他“利用了一个罕见的、此前未知的身份验证漏洞”。

TechCrunch has requested comment from OpenAI on Apple’s newest allegations. Apple is seeking a preliminary injunction — a court order that would block OpenAI from working on hardware based on Apple’s technology while the case is ongoing — as well as expedited discovery, a fast-tracked process for gathering evidence, since the company alleges that more former employees may also be implicated. According to Apple’s initial filing, more than 400 former Apple employees now work at OpenAI. TechCrunch 已就苹果的最新指控向 OpenAI 请求置评。苹果公司正在寻求初步禁令——即一项法院命令，旨在阻止 OpenAI 在案件审理期间开发基于苹果技术的硬件——并要求加快证据开示（expedited discovery），即一种快速收集证据的程序，因为苹果声称可能还有更多前员工牵涉其中。根据苹果最初的诉讼文件，目前有超过 400 名苹果前员工在 OpenAI 工作。