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Former OpenAI employee and whistleblower, Sushir Balaji, was recently found dead in his apartment in San Francisco, California.
The San Francisco Chief Medical Examiner's Office identified Balaji, 26, as the deceased person, according to the report. San Jose Mercury News. The manner of death was ruled suicide.
The medical examiner said he notified Balaji's family.
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The OpenAI ChatGPT logo is seen on a mobile phone in this illustration on May 30, 2023, in Warsaw, Poland. (Jaap Ahrens/Noor Photo via Getty Images)
A San Francisco Police Department spokesperson told the outlet that Balaji was found dead in his Buchanan Street apartment on November 26. First responders were called to his home for a wellness check, and no evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation.
“We were devastated to learn this extremely sad news today, and our thoughts are with Sucher's loved ones during this difficult time,” an OpenAI spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
This comes after Balaji, that Researcher in artificial intelligenceraised concerns about OpenAI violating copyright law in an interview with The New York Times in October.
A man using the AI chat site OpenAI ChatGPT is shown in this illustration on July 18, 2023. (Jaap Ahrens/Noor Photo via Getty Images)
Balaji told the newspaper that he resigned from OpenAI after working there for about four years when he learned that the technology would bring more harm than good to society, noting that his main concern was the way the company was allegedly using copyright data, indicating that he believed it was… The practices were harmful to the Internet.
“I've been at OpenAI for about 4 years and worked on ChatGPT for the last 1.5 of them,” Balaji wrote in October on social media platform See all lawsuits filed against GenAI companies.”
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“As I tried to understand the problem better, I ultimately came to the conclusion that fair use seems like a pretty implausible defense for many generative AI products, for the fundamental reason that they can create alternatives that compete with the data they use.” Practice “, he continued his post.
OpenAI and Microsoft are currently facing several lawsuits from media outlets accusing OpenAI of violating copyright law.
Fox News Digital reached out to the medical examiner and San Francisco Police.
Fox News' Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
