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Former OpenAI employee and whistleblower Suthir Balaji was recently found dead in his San Francisco, California, apartment.
The San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner identified Balaji, 26, as the deceased, the newspaper said. san jose mercury news. The cause of death was determined to be suicide.
The medical examiner said Balaji's family has been notified.
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The OpenAI ChatGPT logo is displayed on a mobile phone in this photo illustration from Warsaw, Poland, May 30, 2023. (Jaap Arrians/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Balaji was found dead in his Buchanan Street apartment on November 26, a San Francisco Police Department spokesperson told the magazine. First responders were called to his home and performed a welfare check, but an initial investigation found no evidence of foul play.
“We are devastated to learn this incredibly sad news today and our hearts go out to Still's loved ones during this difficult time,” an OpenAI spokesperson told FOX News Digital.
This comes after AI researcher Balaji expressed concerns that OpenAI violates copyright laws in an interview with the New York Times in October.
In this illustrated photo on July 18, 2023, a man is seen using the OpenAI ChatGPT artificial intelligence chat website. (Jaap Arrians/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Balaji told the newspaper that he resigned from the company after nearly four years after realizing that OpenAI technology would do more harm than good to society, noting that his main concern was how the company used copyrighted data. , said they believe there is a problem with the way OpenAI uses copyright data. This practice has harmed the Internet.
“I have been at OpenAI for nearly 4 years, the last 1.5 years working on ChatGPT,” Balaji wrote on social media platform X in October. It was interesting to see all the lawsuits filed against GenAI companies. ”
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The OpenAI logo is placed on a laptop on Friday, February 24, 2023 in Beijing, China. (Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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“As we sought to better understand this issue, we concluded that fair use is a fairly implausible defense for many generative AI products. The fundamental reason is that those products Because we can create competing alternatives,” his post continued.
OpenAI and Microsoft are currently facing multiple lawsuits from media companies alleging that OpenAI violates copyright laws.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the coroner and the San Francisco Police Department.
FOX News' Sarah Rumpf-Witten contributed to this report.
