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1. tedivm+W2[view] [source] 2024-05-22 22:38:55
>>apengw+(OP)
If this really was a mistake the easiest way to deal with it would be to release people from their non disparagement agreements that were only signed by leaving employees under the duress of losing their vested equity.

It's really easy to make people whole for this, so whether that happens or not is the difference between the apologies being real or just them just backpedaling because employees got upset.

Edit: Looks like they're doing the right thing here:

> Altman’s initial statement was criticized for doing too little to make things right for former employees, but in an emailed statement, 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” — which goes much further toward fixing their mistake.

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2. belter+95[view] [source] 2024-05-22 22:51:41
>>tedivm+W2
Not a mistake...

"...But there's a problem with those apologies from company leadership. Company documents obtained by Vox with signatures from Altman and Kwon complicate their claim that the clawback provisions were something they hadn’t known about..."

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3. doctor+k6[view] [source] 2024-05-22 22:57:55
>>belter+95
Mistake? The clawback provisions were the executives' idea!
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4. KennyB+Sc[view] [source] 2024-05-22 23:32:07
>>doctor+k6
"We are sorry...that we got caught."

"...and that our PR firm wasn't good enough to squash the story."

They will follow the standard corporate 'disaster recovery' - say something to make it look like they're addressing it, then do nothing and just wait for it to fall out of the news cycle.

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