The speaker thinks some departing employees may have signed without realizing the paperwork required them not to criticize OpenAI, because the equity-loss warning appeared before the restriction in the document.

“so i think some people just didn't even know that like like it said something at the top about like if you don't sign this you lose your equity Yeah. but then like on a couple pages later it was like and this is and you have to agree not to criticize the company so i think some people just like signed it and moved on um and then like of the people who knew about it um well i can't speak for anyone else but like uh a it's like i don't know the law is this actually not standard practice maybe it is standard practice right like from what i've heard now”