Indian-American ex-researcher at OpenAI, Suchir Balaji, known for his vocal criticism of the organisation’s practices, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on 26 November.

The 26-year-old’s death has been ruled a suicide, with authorities reporting no evidence of foul play, Indian Express reported.

After four years at OpenAI, Balaji resigned in August and became a prominent voice raising ethical concerns about the use of copyrighted materials to train generative AI models like ChatGPT.

“I recently participated in a New York Times story about fair use and generative AI, and why I’m sceptical ‘fair use’ would be a plausible defence for a lot of generative AI products. I also wrote a blog post about the nitty-gritty details of fair use and why I believe this,” Balaji had written on X.

Speaking to The New York Times in an interview, Balaji criticised OpenAI’s data collection strategies, calling them harmful.

“If you believe what I believe, you have to just leave the company,” he remarked, raising alarms over the training of GPT-4 on massive amounts of internet data.

In his writings, Balaji focused on the risks posed by generative AI models creating content that could rival the copyrighted materials used in training.

In a blog post cited by the Chicago Tribune, he argued, “No known factors seem to weigh in favour of ChatGPT being a fair use of its training data.”

He noted that this issue extended beyond OpenAI, saying, “Fair use and generative AI is a much broader...

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