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“OpenAI: Fallout” by Zvi
Previously: OpenAI: Exodus (contains links at top to earlier episodes), Do Not Mess With Scarlett Johansson
We have learned more since last week. It's worse than we knew.
How much worse? In which ways? With what exceptions?
That's what this post is about.
The Story So Far
For years, employees who left OpenAI consistently had their vested equity explicitly threatened with confiscation and the lack of ability to sell it, and were given short timelines to sign documents or else. Those documents contained highly aggressive NDA and non disparagement (and non interference) clauses, including the NDA preventing anyone from revealing these clauses.
No one knew about this until recently, because until Daniel Kokotajlo everyone signed, and then they could not talk about it. Then Daniel refused to sign, Kelsey Piper started reporting, and a lot came out.
Here is Altman's statement from [...]
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First published:
May 28th, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YwhgHwjaBDmjgswqZ/openai-fallout
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
We have learned more since last week. It's worse than we knew.
How much worse? In which ways? With what exceptions?
That's what this post is about.
The Story So Far
For years, employees who left OpenAI consistently had their vested equity explicitly threatened with confiscation and the lack of ability to sell it, and were given short timelines to sign documents or else. Those documents contained highly aggressive NDA and non disparagement (and non interference) clauses, including the NDA preventing anyone from revealing these clauses.
No one knew about this until recently, because until Daniel Kokotajlo everyone signed, and then they could not talk about it. Then Daniel refused to sign, Kelsey Piper started reporting, and a lot came out.
Here is Altman's statement from [...]
---
First published:
May 28th, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YwhgHwjaBDmjgswqZ/openai-fallout
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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Previously: OpenAI: Exodus (contains links at top to earlier episodes), Do Not Mess With Scarlett Johansson
We have learned more since last week. It's worse than we knew.
How much worse? In which ways? With what exceptions?
That's what this post is about.
The Story So Far
For years, employees who left OpenAI consistently had their vested equity explicitly threatened with confiscation and the lack of ability to sell it, and were given short timelines to sign documents or else. Those documents contained highly aggressive NDA and non disparagement (and non interference) clauses, including the NDA preventing anyone from revealing these clauses.
No one knew about this until recently, because until Daniel Kokotajlo everyone signed, and then they could not talk about it. Then Daniel refused to sign, Kelsey Piper started reporting, and a lot came out.
Here is Altman's statement from [...]
---
First published:
May 28th, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YwhgHwjaBDmjgswqZ/openai-fallout
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
We have learned more since last week. It's worse than we knew.
How much worse? In which ways? With what exceptions?
That's what this post is about.
The Story So Far
For years, employees who left OpenAI consistently had their vested equity explicitly threatened with confiscation and the lack of ability to sell it, and were given short timelines to sign documents or else. Those documents contained highly aggressive NDA and non disparagement (and non interference) clauses, including the NDA preventing anyone from revealing these clauses.
No one knew about this until recently, because until Daniel Kokotajlo everyone signed, and then they could not talk about it. Then Daniel refused to sign, Kelsey Piper started reporting, and a lot came out.
Here is Altman's statement from [...]
---
First published:
May 28th, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YwhgHwjaBDmjgswqZ/openai-fallout
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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