Trade Secrets Law Is Awkward Fit in AI Prompt-Hacking Lawsuit

A medical AI company’s novel trade secrets lawsuit accusing a rival of prompting its platform to reveal how it was built illustrates the challenges artificial intelligence presents for protecting proprietary information.

OpenEvidence Inc. in its complaint accused Pathway Medical inc. of stealing medical credentials to gain access to its AI tool and employing prompts to have it reveal the “system prompts” OpenEvidence had used to create the platform. The suit levels claims including computer fraud, breach of contract, and hacking to gain access to copyrighted material, but the trade secrets claim stood out to attorneys and law professors as the ...