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Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old former OpenAI researcher, was found dead in his apartment last month. Mr Balaji's death was ruled a suicide, according to the San Francisco Police.
Mr Balaji, who left OpenAI in October 2023, had emerged as a whistleblower against the AI giant. He alleged that the company's AI models were trained on copyrighted material scraped from the internet without authorisation, a practice he argued was harmful.
"If you believe what I believe, you have to just leave the company," Mr Balaji told the New York Times in an interview.
Mr Balaji explained his concerns further on his personal website, claiming that OpenAI's process of copying data for model training amounted to potential copyright infringement. He noted that while generative models rarely produce outputs identical to their training data, the act of replicating copyrighted material during training could violate laws if not protected under "fair use."
"This is not a sustainable model for the internet ecosystem as a whole," he told the New York Times.
OpenAI disputed his claims, insisting that their data use adhered to fair use principles and legal precedents.
"We build our AI models using publicly available data, in a manner protected by fair use and related principles, and supported by longstanding and widely accepted legal precedents. We view this principle as fair to creators, necessary for innovators, and critical for US competitiveness," OpenAI said in a statement.
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