OpenAI told me that “we are identifying and reaching out to former employees who signed a standard exit agreement to make it clear that OpenAI has not and will not cancel their vested equity and releases them from nondisparagement obligations”
We know various people who’ve left OpenAI and might criticize it if they could. Either most of them will soon say they’re free or we can infer that OpenAI was lying/misleading.
Now OpenAI publicly said “we’re releasing former employees from existing nondisparagement obligations unless the nondisparagement provision was mutual.” This seems to be self-effecting; by saying it, OpenAI made it true.
That is, if someone signed the (standard or non-standard) agreement, and OpenAI says this, but later they decide to sue the employee anyway… what exactly will happen?
(I am also suspicious about the “reaching out to former employees” part, because if the new negotiation is made in private, another trick might be involved, like maybe they are released from the old agreement, but they have to sign a new one...?)
They could be lying about this.
We know various people who’ve left OpenAI and might criticize it if they could. Either most of them will soon say they’re free or we can infer that OpenAI was lying/misleading.
Now OpenAI publicly said “we’re releasing former employees from existing nondisparagement obligations unless the nondisparagement provision was mutual.” This seems to be self-effecting; by saying it, OpenAI made it true.
Hooray!
This could be true for most cases though
I am not a lawyer—is that legally binding?
That is, if someone signed the (standard or non-standard) agreement, and OpenAI says this, but later they decide to sue the employee anyway… what exactly will happen?
(I am also suspicious about the “reaching out to former employees” part, because if the new negotiation is made in private, another trick might be involved, like maybe they are released from the old agreement, but they have to sign a new one...?)
So I’m guessing this covers like 2-4 recent departures, and not Paul, Dario, or the others that split earlier