ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t

OpenAI's offboarding agreements reportedly required departing employees to accept lifelong nondisclosure and non-disparagement terms, or risk losing vested equity, a practice the author calls highly ironic for the company. The article says former employee Daniel Kokotajlo confirmed he had to surrender likely millions of dollars in vested equity to quit without signing. After publication, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company has never canceled vested equity and will not if people decline to sign, but sources told the author this marked a policy change. On May 18, Sam Altman acknowledged a provision about "potential equity cancellation" and said the language was being changed.