Suchir Balaji, a former employee at ChatGPT-parent OpenAI, accused the company of violating copyright laws in October. A month later, he was found dead in his US apartment. In an October interview with The New York Times, Balaji shared his disillusionment after realising that OpenAI's practices, especially its use of internet-sourced data to train AI models, could be infringing on copyright laws.
In an interview with Business Insider on Thursday, Balaji's mother, Poornima Ramarao, shared her son's journey, his growing concerns about OpenAI, and the disillusionment leading to his decision to leave the company.
According to Ramarao, her son believed the company had shifted focus, moving away from its open-source, nonprofit roots, and towards a more financially-driven agenda. His concerns intensified as OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a product powered by the data he had helped gather for GPT-4.
“He felt AI is a harm to humanity,” Ramarao told Business Insider. The growing tension between Balaji's ideals and OpenAI's commercial strategies ultimately led him to resign in August.
Balaji excelled from an early age. His mother recalled how he could form complex sentences at just two years old and began learning to code by age 11. By 14, he had written a scientific paper on chip design, and at 17, he was recruited by the online knowledge-sharing platform Quora. Ramarao recalled, “As a toddler, as a little 5-year-old, he never made mistakes. He was perfect.”
Despite his early...
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