Equation 2 refers to creating $x_t$ from $x_0$. So, inIn the proposed method, each $x_t$ was generated from $x_0$ by sampling a random noise i, i.e.:
$\\x_1 = \sqrt{\bar{\alpha_1}}\cdot x_0 + \sqrt(1-\bar{\alpha_1})\cdot \epsilon_1$
$x_2 = \sqrt(\bar{\alpha_2})\cdot x_0 + \sqrt(1-\bar{\alpha_2})\cdot \epsilon_2$
s.t. $\epsilon_1, \epsilon_2 \sim N(0,I)$, which means that they are independent.
However, when creating $x_t$ from $x_{t-1}$, by rearranging the equation to be how $x_t$ was created from $x_0$, you will get that these noises are dependent. i, i.e.:
$\\x_1 = \sqrt(1-\beta_1)\cdot x_0 + \sqrt(\beta_1)\cdot \epsilon_1$
$x_2 = \sqrt(1-\beta_2)\cdot x_1 + \sqrt(beta_2)\cdot \epsilon_2$$x_2 = \sqrt(1-\beta_2)\cdot x_1 + \sqrt(\beta_2)\cdot \epsilon_2$
s.t. $\epsilon_1, \epsilon_2 \sim N(0,I)$
==> rearrangingRearranging:
$\\x_1 = \sqrt(1-\beta_1)\cdot x_0 + \sqrt(\beta_1)\cdot \epsilon_1$
$\\x_2 = \sqrt(1-\beta_2)\cdot \sqrt(1-\beta_1)\cdot x_0 + \sqrt(1-\beta_1)*\sqrt(\beta_1)\cdot \epsilon_1+\sqrt(\beta_2)\cdot \epsilon_2 = A\cdot x_0 + B*\epsilon_3$
which nowshows that $\epsilon_1$ and $\epsilon_3$ are dependent.
Hope it is clearer now.