Who is Suchir Balaji, ex-OpenAI researcher who worked on ChatGPT and exposed AI’s ‘dark side’?
26-year-old Suchir Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on November 26. His sudden death has shocked the industry as the news comes three months after Balaji spoke to The New York Times, in a lengthy interview, against OpenAI’s unabashed use of copyrighted data and how it was illegal and why it could ultimately harm the Internet. Finally, after it surfaced that OpenAI had scraped through data indiscriminately, prominent news publishers including The New York Times itself filed copyright lawsuits. 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.” Separately, he posted a blog saying companies like OpenAI and Microsoft argue that they could train their AI models using freely available data from the Internet because they meet the “fair use” requirement in the U.S. The day before San Francisco police found Balaji’s body in his apartment, a court filing had named the researcher in a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI.
Mystery as Open AI whistleblower Suchir Balaji is found dead in San Francisco home
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