A former employee of the artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, who alleged that the company’s programs violated copyright law, was found dead at his San Francisco apartment. San Francisco police found 26-year-old Suchir Balaji dead in his Lower Haight apartment on November 26, Huffington Post reported. In the latest update, the police on Friday said that the whistleblower died by suicide and there was “no evidence of foul play”.
“The manner of death has been determined to be suicide,” David Serrano Sewell, director of the office of the city’s chief medical examiner, told The San Francisco Standard by email. Balaji was a former researcher for the company. In a New York Times article, he accused OpenAI of using copyrighted material to train ChatGPT. Balaji quit the company in August and his profile on NYT was published in October.
Multiple lawsuits against OpenAI are expected to present information unearthed by Balaji as key evidence. As per the report, officers went to Balaji’s house at 1:15 pm (local time) on November 26. The officers were visiting the apartment for a “wellness check”. “Officers and medics arrived on scene and located a deceased adult male from what appeared to be a suicide,” SFPD said. “No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation,” the officials furthered.
While speaking to TechCrunch, an OpenAI spokesperson said that the company is devastated to hear the news. “We are devastated to learn of this...
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