It turns out there’s a very clear reason for that. I have seen the extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement that contains nondisclosure and non-disparagement provisions former OpenAI employees are subject to. It forbids them, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer. Even acknowledging that the NDA exists is a violation of it.
Utterly insane.
Move to Europe, that NDA isn’t legal here, which makes the whole thing void.
First rule of OpenAI is: “What is OpenAI?”
Except… this sort of contract is no longer considered to be legal in the United States.
I’m really looking forward to the lawsuits, to be honest.
Edit: lol wow, derp. This is NDA, not non-compete (the article I linked). But that said, companies will often make NDA contracts that are legally questionable, and as was mentioned (and linked to) further down the thread, the NLRB has ruled that NDAs that effectively force employees to broadly surrender their labor law rights are unenforceable.
I may be missing information, but I thought the only major change recently was that non-compete agreements were made effectively illegal, but I don’t believe there was anything that affected non-disclosure agreements and non-disparagement agreements.
They’re not talking about that, they’re talking about this from last year:
Sure major senior leaders are resigning, and, yes the guy looks like he just woke up in a dumpster, but you’ve got to understand every imaginary thing anyone is thinking that AI can do will, like, totally happen. Totally. Probably tomorrow!
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The labor law violations, probably
