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OpenAI whistleblower found dead at his San Francisco apartment

Suchir Balaji, an OpenAI whistleblower and former employee, tragically passed away in his San Francisco apartment. Balaji, just 26, had been vocal in his opposition to the way ChatGPT obtains its training data. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) determined suicide as the cause of death.

The former employee resigned from OpenAI after four years when he concluded that the technology he was working on could be harmful to creators and publishers. He started to have doubts after witnessing the numerous copyright lawsuits that AI companies, including OpenAI, were facing.

“When I tried to understand the issue better, I eventually came to the conclusion that fair use seems like a pretty implausible defense for a lot of generative AI products, for the basic reason that they can create substitutes that compete with the data they’re trained on,” Balaji said in October in an X/Twitter post. He was one of the few who questioned OpenAI’s handling and data collection.

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