[diziet]

Whether this is true or not, this is a clever move to publicize. Anyone being poached by Meta now from OpenAI will feel like asking for 100m bonuses and will possibly feel underappreciated with only a 20 or 50 million signing bonus.

[gondo]

This can backfire and work the other way around. Existing employees may try to renegotiate their compensation and threaten to leave.

[PunchTornado]

20 mil is peanuts. who would accept it?

[randomcarbloke]

I would, where do I sign

[cess11]

It's like twelve life incomes in the US.

    > 20000000 / (40 * 40000)
    12.5

An obscene amount of wealth.

[bloqs]

people not completely out of touch with reality

[kasperni]

Yeah, and everyone will know you did it for the money.

[willvarfar]

Isn't pretty much everyone working at OpenAI already clearly motivated by money over principle? OpenAI had a very public departure from being for-good to being for-money last year...

[lm28469]

Are people sacrificing 40 hours of their lives every week to mega corps for anything other than money???

[StefanBatory]

I think most of us work for money ;)

[loose-cannon]

As opposed to?

[gadders]

Imagine!! I would never live down the humiliation of getting a $100m signing bonus (I'd really like the opportunity to try though).

[pjc50]

This isn't punk, nobody cares if you're a ""sellout"".