Ronobo

Meta, your NDAs suck and are totally unreasonable. AI product team offered me a consulting gig for 35hrs a week as a “Design Engineer V” and pay was quite nice, gotta say. Only problem is had I signed, I wouldn’t be able to talk or tweet about Midjourney, Runway, or pretty much any AI tool viewed as “competitive” to the work I’d be doing. Essentially all of them. Yet the reason they reached out in the first place was because of the work I was doing with these tools…it doesn’t make sense. Plus, I wouldn’t be able to talk about or share any of the work I’d be doing with them. So the offer was essentially “we like what your doing, now please stop all of it and just do it for us instead” So so dumb. After a couple months of lawyers going back and forth trying to make it work, they never gave terms even close to reasonable. Huge waste of time. Sour taste in my mouth. Felt like they were trying to fuck me over. Luckily I have a lawyer who was able to review and point out the craziness. Meta innovation lab on the other hand has been great. Probably cause they are used to working with creators and really are just there to help. But in general, be careful with these big companies. A big deal coming in from someone like meta might look cool on the surface, but the reality in my case was they were just trying to own me.