> After publication, an OpenAI spokesperson sent me this statement: “We have never canceled any current or former employee’s vested equity nor will we if people do not sign a release or nondisparagement agreement when they exit.”
Neither of those statements negate the key point of the article.
I've noticed that both Sam Altman personally, and official statements from OpenAI sound like they've been written by Aes Sedai: Not a single untrue word while simultaneously thoroughly deceptive.[1]
Let's try translating some statements, as if we were listening to an evil person that can only make true statements:
"We have never canceled any current or former employee’s vested equity" => "But we can and will if we want to. We just haven't yet."
"...if people do not sign a release or nondisparagement agreement when they exit." => "But we're making everyone sign the agreement."
[1] I've wondered if they use a not-for-public-use version of GPT for this purpose. You know, a model that's not quite as aligned as the chat bots, with more "flexible" morals.
> After publication, an OpenAI spokesperson sent me this statement: “We have never canceled any current or former employee’s vested equity nor will we if people do not sign a release or nondisparagement agreement when they exit.”
- Updated May 17, 2024, 11:20pm EDT