CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A former OpenAI employee turned whistleblower was found dead in his San Francisco home.
According to police, Suchir Balaji died from an apparent suicide. Originally, police were called to his home to perform a wellbeing check on Nov. 26. They arrived and found him already dead.
As it stands, investigators have found no evidence of foul play.
Balaji was an artificial intelligence researcher at OpenAI. Just a day before his death, he was named in a copyright lawsuit. According to the BBC, Balaji had been publicly outspoken against the company's practices. The company had been fighting a number of different lawsuits related to its data-gathering practices.
In a previous interview back in October with the New York Times, Balaji stated that he had worked for OpenAI for four years as a researcher, which led him to the conclusion that "OpenAI's use of copyrighted data to build ChatGPT violated the law and that technologies like ChatGPT were damaging the internet."
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Colleagues and those close to Balaji said that they are devastated by the loss.
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