It is alleged,

Holding the best AI talents is difficult against the background of competition between Google, Openai and other heavy weights.

Google AI, DeepMind, resorts to the use of “aggressive” incompetent agreements for some AI employees in the UK that prohibit them to work for competitors up to one year, Business Insider reportsS

Some are paid during this time in what is a prolonged section of PTO. But practice can make the researchers feel left at the fast rate of AI’s progress, BI reports.

In the US, FTC prohibit most incompetent last yearBut this does not apply to the DeepMind Department in London.

Last month, AI Vice President at Microsoft posted to X on how Deepmind employees turn to it “despair” because of the challenge of escaping from their incompetent clauses:

Google did not reply to a comment request from TechCrunch, but told BI, he uses incompetent “selectively”.