OpenAI will not enforce any non-disparagement agreements signed by former employees and will remove that language entirely from exit documents, the company said. Bloomberg. Vox recently informed OpenAI forced departing employees to choose between speaking out against the company and keeping their hard-earned capital. Employees can stand to lose millions if they decide not to sign or break the contract. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he was “embarrassed” and promised to change the company’s documents, saying he was unaware the provision existed.
according to Bloombergthe company warned its former employees that “[r]whether or not [they] executed the contract … OpenAI has not and will not terminate any rights section.” He released them entirely from the contract, “unless the no-fault clause is mutual.” At least one former employee said they they lost their capital It was multiple times their family’s net worth, which they refused to sign when they left. It is not clear if they got it back with this change. The company has also spoken to current employees about the development, allaying concerns that they will have to be careful what they say if they don’t want to lose their stock.
“We apologize for the distress this has caused the great people who work so hard for us,” Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon said in a statement. “We are working to fix this as soon as possible. We will work harder to get better.”
This wasn’t the only controversial situation OpenAI has gotten into recently. Recently, the company announced that it has break up the team it was created last year to make sure humanity is protected from future artificial intelligence systems that could become so powerful they could lead to our destruction. Before that, one of the leaders of the team, OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, left the company. Another team lead, Jan Leike, said in a series of tweets that “security culture and processes have taken a backseat to brilliant products” within OpenAI. Also, Scarlett Johansson He accused OpenAI of copying his voice Without permission for ChatGPT’s Sky voice assistant after rejecting Altman’s request to vote for the company. OpenAI he denied said he copied the actor’s voice and hired another actor before Altman contacted Johansson.
