Suchir Balaji has died under suspicious circumstances. He was an Indian-origin AI researcher who worked for OpenAI and ChatGPT. During this work, he questioned OpenAI's data practices and called it dangerous for society. After this, he distanced himself from OpenAI.
Indian-origin researcher Suchir Balaji, who lived in America, has died under suspicious circumstances. He was a former researcher of OpenAI, on which ChatGPT is based. However, before his death, Balaji had become very vocal against OpenAI, he had called OpenAI dangerous for society. He also accused OpenAI of breaking copyright laws. After this, he was found dead in his apartment in San Francisco. His death remains a topic of discussion. The San Francisco Office of Chief Medical Examiner says that Suchir has committed suicide.
Who was Suchir Balaji
Suchir Balaji was a student of the University of California, where he studied computer science. He also did internships at OpenAI and Scale AI. He was among the developers who created ChatGPT. After spending four years at OpenAI, Suchir realized that this technology was going to cause more harm to society than benefit. In such a situation, he distanced himself from OpenAI.
Suchir's statement increased concern about AI
Suchir's statement and then his death has sparked a debate about AI. Suchir had said that wrong and copyrighted data has been used to develop generative AI, which is not a fair practice. Let us tell you that many types of cases are going on against generative AI companies. Balaji had advised machine learning researchers to be aware of copyright.
Balaji's story was recently published in the New York Times newspaper, in which generative and fair use were mentioned. In this interview, he explained in detail how OpenAI collects data in a dangerous way. He expressed concern about the use of large-scale internet data during the training of GPT-4. Balaji gave information about this by writing a post on the social media platform X.