Elon Musk has questioned the cause of death of Suchir Balaji, the former OpenAI researcher who turned whistleblower on the company a month before he was found dead in his apartment.
Balaji's death in November was ruled as a suicide by San Francisco authorities, a month after he contacted the New York Times to warn that OpenAI could be using copyrighted data in a way that broke the law.
Newsweek contacted OpenAI for comment via email outside of regular office hours.
OpenAI is one of the biggest players in the fast-growing artificial intelligence industry. The ChatGPT producer is valued at $157 billion, and its flagship product is one of the most widely used AI tools in the world. The New York Times lawsuit has raised questions as to how OpenAI accesses data for its large language model machine-learning programs.
Balaji's accusations of illegality, published in the New York Times in October, stem from his time at the company. He alleges that ChatGPT was actively damaging the internet, and that OpenAI was illegally using copyrighted data to train its AI models.
Balaji's death was deemed a suicide, and there is no officially verified information that indicates any other cause of death. Musk casting doubt on the ruling implies that he has serious concerns and he would support a deeper investigation into the matter.
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