But first amendment basically only restricts the government's ability to suppress speech, not the ability of other parties (like OpenAI).
This restriction may be illegal, but not on first amendment ("free speech") grounds.
It does not prevent you from entering into contracts with other private entities, like your company, about what THEY allow you to say or not. In this case there might be other laws about whether a company can unilaterally force that on you after the fact, but that's not a free speech consideration, just a contract dispute.
See https://www.themuse.com/advice/non-disparagement-clause-agre...
The first amendment is a US free speech protection, but it's not prototypical.
You can also find this in some other free speech protections, for example that in the UDHR
>Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
doesn't refer to states at all.
Consider for example that when Amazon bought the Ring security camera system, it had a “god mode” that allowed executives and a team in Ukraine unlimited access to all camera data. It wasn’t just a consumer product for home users, it was a mass surveillance product for the business owners:
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/10/amazon-ring-security-cam...
The EFF has more information on other privacy issues with that system:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/amazons-ring-perfect-s...
These big companies and their executives want power. Withholding huge financial gain from ex employees to maintain their silence is one way of retaining that power.
It's a lot of mental work to rally the emotion of revulsion over the evil they might be doing that is kept secret.
Also, when secrets or truthful disparaging information is leaked anonymously without a metadata trail, I'm thinking there's probably little or no recourse.
I was once fired, ghosted style, for merely being in the same meeting room as a racist corporate ass-clown muting the conference call to make Asian slights and monkey gesticulations. There was no lawsuit or payday because "how would I ever work again?" was the Hobson's choice between let it go and a moral crusade without a way to pay rent.
If instead I were upset that "not enough N are in tech," there isn't a specific incident or person to blame because it'd be a multifaceted situation.
After all, at this point, OpenAI:
- Is not open with models
- Is not open with plans
- Does not let former employees be open.
It sure does give us a glimpse into the Future of how Open AI will be!
High levels (especially if they were board/exec level) will often have additional obligations on top of rank and file.
Makes you wonder what misdeeds they’re trying so hard to hide.
Cryptography is a prime example. Any time any company is the tiniest bit cagey or obfuscates any aspect, I default to assuming that they’re either selling snake oil or have installed NSA back doors. I’ll claim this openly, as a fact, until proven otherwise.
So I think an argument can be made that NDAs and similar agreements should not be enforceable by courts.
See Shelley v. Kraemer
Worse if it is related to training future super intelligence to kill people. Killer drones are possible even with today's technology without AGI.
I mean to say there are certain rights we all have, simply for existing as humans. The right to breathe is a good example. No human, state, or otherwise has the moral high-ground to take these rights from us. They are not granted, or given, they are absolute and unequivocal.
It's not rhetoric, it's basic John Locke. Also your trust is an internal locus, and doesn't change the facts.
Your quips will serve you well, I'm sure, in whatever microcosm you populate.
"self-evident," means it requires no formal proof, as it is obvious to all with common sense and reason.