Suspicious OpenAI Whistleblower 26-year-old Suchir Balaji Death Ruled Suicide

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The November death of former OpenAI researcher-turned-whistleblower, 26-year-old Suchir Balaji was ruled a suicide, reports.According to the medical examiner, there was no foul play in Balaji’s Nov. 26 death in his San Francisco apartment.

Balaji had publicly accused OpenAI of violating US copyright law with ChatGPT. According to the NY Times;

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He came to the conclusion that OpenAI’s use of copyrighted data violated the law and that technologies like ChatGPT were damaging the internet.

In August, he left OpenAI because he no longer wanted to contribute to technologies that he believed would bring society more harm than benefit.

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“If you believe what I believe, you have to just leave the company,” he said during a recent series of interviews with The New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/openai-copyright-law.html


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