Elon Musk has questioned the death of a ChatGPT whistleblower who was found dead by suicide after speaking out against the tech company.
Former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji, 26, was found dead on November 26, three months after he accused the company of violating copyright laws in their development of ChatGPT.
Police said they found no evidence of foul play at the scene and ruled the death a suicide. Still, Balaji's parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy have continued to question the circumstances of their son's death.
Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015, weighed in on Balaji's death in December, writing on X, 'This doesn't seem like a suicide.'
Tesla's founder has battled with OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, since they refused his offer to buy them out in 2018. Musk has since slammed OpenAI for accepting $90 billion of funding, saying the commercial enterprise flies in the face of its original mission - to help fight threats to humanity posed by AI.
Musk reposted a video over the weekend of Balaji's parents' interview claiming their son had been against the company turning into a for-profit organization.
'The reason he joined OpenAI was his belief that AI will help humanity. He was very impressed with OpenAI initially because they were nonprofit,' the grieving mother said.
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