
What OpenAI whistleblower revealed about company weeks before his death
India TodaySuchir Balaji, a former researcher at OpenAI, was found dead in a San Francisco apartment in late November. In an interview with The New York Times in October, just weeks before his death, the 26-year-old researcher accused OpenAI of using copyrighted material without authorisation to train ChatGPT. He claimed that Sam Altman’s company sourced vast amounts of digital data from the internet to train its AI models without adhering to fair use provisions. Balaji argued that OpenAI’s practices were destroying the commercial viability of individuals, businesses, and internet services that created these vast amounts of digital data. Balaji also accused OpenAI of making unauthorised copies of copyrighted data, as well as creating similar versions of the originals.
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