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Leaked documents reveal that OpenAI has been employing aggressive tactics towards former employees, requiring them to sign lifelong non-disparagement agreements and NDAs that prevent them from revealing this fact. Reports indicate that the company pressured employees to sign these agreements under threat of losing their vested equity and exclusion from future liquidity events. Despite CEO Sam Altman's claims of ignorance, evidence suggests that OpenAI's leadership was fully aware of these practices. The leaked documents, published by Vox, have prompted OpenAI to announce that it will no longer enforce these restrictive agreements. This development has sparked significant criticism and raised questions about OpenAI's treatment of its employees and the liquidity of its equity. An internal memo viewed by CNBC confirmed this policy change, which could have involved clawing back millions.
I can't believe that OpenAI didn't offer *any* payment for signing the non-disparage, just threats... This makes it even clearer that Altman's claims of ignorance were lies - he cannot possibly have believed that former employees unanimously signed non-disparagements for free! https://t.co/QXzOF9IUAW
A follow-up question to OpenAI’s “near-arbitrary authority to claw back equity from former employees” is whether or not those same terms apply to investor equity as well. It could given their hybrid non-profit structure and to protect (maneuver around?) that status. https://t.co/Cw4al0okbE
Really speaks to how profoundly the "ultrarestrictive secret NDA or lose your equity" agreement was an own goal for OpenAI - I would say a solid majority of the former employees affected did not even want to criticize the company, until it threatened their compensation. https://t.co/EJgpkntue7