Former Open AI employee Suchir Balaji, 26, died by suicide at his Buchanan Street apartment in Lower Haight district, San Francisco Police believe as they found no clues of any foul play
Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old former OpenAI researcher, who had voiced concerns over the company's practices involving artificial intelligence (AI) was found dead at his San Francisco residence, reports said. The Indian-origin whistle blower's demise on November 26 has rocked the tech and privacy rights fraternity.
Balaji questioned the data that OpenAI trained its models on and voiced concerns about OpenAI breaking copyright law. As things stand here are five things that we know so far about the young whistleblower's unfortunate passing.
Who was Suchir Balaji? Suchir Balaji worked for Open AI for four years before quitting in October. He began his career as an intern while in college, and later got to work with GPT-4, reasoning team with o1, and post-training for ChatGPT, Hindustan Times said citing the late man's LinkedIn profile.
Balaji was a computer science alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley.
What did Suchir Balaji do to become a whistleblower? Three months ago, Balaji publicly claimed OpenAI had breached US copyright legislation in developing ChatGPT.
Balaji told a prominent US media that OpenAI was negatively impacting businesses and entrepreneurs whose information was utilised to train ChatGPT, the Times Of India pointed out. This put OpenAI further on the back foot...
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