OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment from apparent suicide

If you believe what I believe, you have to just leave the company,

he told the outlet

Microsoft and OpenAI simply take the work product of reporters, journalists, editorial writers, editors and others who contribute to the work of local newspapers - all without any regard for the efforts, much less the legal rights, of those who create and publish the news on which local communities rely

Their suit said

I thought that AI was a thing that could be used to solve unsolvable problems, like curing diseases and stopping aging

He added

Officers and medics arrived on scene and located a deceased adult male from what appeared to be a suicide. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation.”

According to

Feel free to get in touch if you'd like to chat about fair use, ML, or copyright -- I think it's a very interesting intersection. My email's on my personal website,

he concluded

That being said, I don't want this to read as a critique of ChatGPT or OpenAI per se, because fair use and generative AI is a much broader issue than any one product or company. I highly encourage ML researchers to learn more about copyright -- it's a really important topic, and precedent that's often cited like Google Books isn't actually as supportive as it might seem,

he further wrote

None of this is related to their lawsuit with OpenAI - I just think they're a good newspaper,

he added

We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news today and our hearts go out to Suchir's loved ones during this difficult time,

an OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement to BI

While generative models rarely produce outputs that are substantially similar to any of their training inputs, the process of training a generative model involves making copies of copyrighted data,

Balaji wrote

We build our A.I. models using publicly available data, in a manner protected by fair use and related principles, and supported by longstanding and widely accepted legal precedents. We view this principle as fair to creators, necessary for innovators, and critical for US competitiveness."

In a statement to the Times about Balaji's accusations, OpenAI said

This is not a sustainable model for the internet ecosystem as a whole,

he told the publication

The manner of death has been determined to be suicide,

David Serrano Sewell, executive director of San Francisco's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, told CNBC in an email on Friday

Sam AltmanopenAI CEO

We actually don't need to train on their data,

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at an event organized by Bloomberg in Davos earlier this year

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) has identified the decedent as Suchir Balaji, 26. The manner of death has been determined as suicide. The OCME has notified the next-of-kin and has no further comments or reports for publication at this time,

it said in a statement to TechCrunch

Initially didn’t know much about copyright, fair use, etc. but became curious after seeing all the lawsuits filed against GenAI companies. 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 expressed his concerns in an X post in October, saying