The Indian Express Employee-turned-whistleblower Suchir Balaji had alleged that OpenAI had flouted the norms of fair use under the US copyright act in sourcing data for its GPT-4 model to analyse and train on.
An Indian-American researcher who formerly worked for OpenAI, Suchir Balaji, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on November 26, according to a CNBC report. Police have ruled that he had died by suicide.
Balaji had previously been the subject of a profile by The New York Times in which he alleged that the company had violated US copyright law while developing the ChatGPT chatbot.
Who was Balaji?
The 25-year-old grew up in Cupertino, California. He told The NYT in October that his fascination with artificial intelligence dated back to 2013 when DeepMind, a London-based startup, introduced AI that had learned to play Atari games on its own. This spurred him to study neural networks, a machine-learning technique that mimics the human brain in analysing digital data and was the basis of DeepMind’s AI technology.
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