(I should reiterate that I actually wrote "serious, possibly criminal")
Employees and employer enter into an agreement: Work here for X term and you get Y options with Z terms attached. OK.
But, then later pulling Darth Vader… “Now that the deal is completing, I am changing the deal. Consent and it’s bad for you this way. Don’t consent and it’s bad that way. Either way, you held up your end of our agreement and I’m not.”
I assume this was something agreed to before they started working.
So maybe it's related to that.
Anyway it's about not disparaging the company not about disclosing what employees do in their free time. Orgies are just parties and LSD use is hardly taboo.
Well apparently not if there are women who are saying that the scene and community that all these people are involved in is making women uncomfortable or causing them to be harassed or pressured into bad situations.
A situation can be bad, done informally by people within a community, even if it isn't done literally within the corporate headquarters, or if directly the responsibility of one specific company that can be pointed at.
Especially if it is a close-nit group of people who are living together, working together, involved in the same out of work organizations and non profits.
You can read what Sonia says herself.
https://x.com/soniajoseph_/status/1791604177581310234
> The ones going to orgies are the effective altruists / safety researchers who are leaving and not signing the non-disparagement agreement.
Indeed, I am sure that the people who are comfortable with the behavior or situation have no need to be pressured into silence.
I don't understand this point. If Google gave the data to OpenAI (which they surely haven't, right?), even then they'd not have consent from users.
As far as I understand it, it's not a given that there is no copyright infringement here. I don't think even criminal copyright infringement is off the table here, because it's clear it's for profit, it's clear it's wilful under 17 U.S.C. 506(a).
And once you consider the difficult potential position here -- that the liabilities from Sora might be worse than the liabilities from ChatGPT -- there's all sorts of potential for bad behaviour at a corporate level, from misrepresentations regarding business commitments to misrepresentations on a legal level.
They will gain a lot of lawsuit if they admit they trained on youtube dataset because not everyone gave consent.
But a lawsuit fails if essential elements are not met. If consent isn’t required for the lawsuit to proceed, then it doesn’t matter whether or whether not consent was granted. QED.