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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by yumraj on Friday May 17, 2024 @10:20PM (#40396040)
Compared to what seemed like their original charter, with non-profit structure and all, now it seems like a rather poisonous place.

They will have many successes in the short run, but, their long run future suddenly looks a little murky.

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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by 0xDEAFBEAD on Friday May 17, 2024 @10:47PM (#40396152)
Similar points made here, if anyone is interested in signing: https://www.openailetter.org/
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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by eternauta3k on Saturday May 18, 2024 @02:42AM (#40396926)
It could work like academia or finance: poisonous environment (it is said), but ambitious enough people still go in to try their luck.
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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by throwaway2037 on Saturday May 18, 2024 @09:56AM (#40399118)
"finance": A bit of a broad brush, don't you think? Is working at a Landsbank or Sparkasse in Germany really so "poisonous"?
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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by eternauta3k on Saturday May 18, 2024 @01:06PM (#40400390)
Yes, of course, narrow that down to the crazy wolf-of-wall-street subset.
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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by throwaway2037 on Sunday May 19, 2024 @11:08PM (#40411822)
Better to say so in the first place. At this point in 2024, the all too common trope about Wall Street-film-like bad guys on a trading floor are basically gone. They haven't really existed since post-GFC in 2009. Do you have first hand experience that says otherwise?
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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by baq on Saturday May 18, 2024 @06:35AM (#40397847)
They extracted a lot of value from researchers during their ‘open’ days, but it’s depleted now, so of course they move on to the next source of value. sama is going AGI or bust with a very rational position of ‘if somebody has AGI, I’d rather it was me’ except I don’t like how he does it one bit, it’s got a very dystopian feel to it.
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