New York, December 14
A 26-year-old former employee of artificial intelligence company OpenAI committed suicide in San Francisco. Suchir Balaji was found dead in his Buchanan Street apartment in San Francisco on November 26, The Mercury News said, citing San Francisco police and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The medical examiner’s office ruled the manner of death a suicide, and police officials said there is no evidence of any suspicious activity at this time.
The much-discussed issue of copyright was raised against Chat GPT
Balaji came into the limelight for raising his voice against the blockbuster artificial intelligence company. The company is facing lawsuits over its business model. Balaji’s death comes three months after he publicly accused OpenAI of violating US copyright law, the report said. While ChatGPT, a derivative artificial intelligence program, has become a money-making sensation used by millions of people around the world.
A public release of it in late 2022 spurred a wave of lawsuits against OpenAI from authors, computer programmers and journalists, who say the company illegally used their copyrighted material to train its program. has stolen and put its value above 150 billion dollars. In an interview with the New York Times published on October 23, Balaji argued that OpenAI is harming businesses and entrepreneurs whose data was used to train ChatGPT.
Balaji left OpenAI because he no longer wanted to contribute to technologies that would do more harm than good to society. He said that, “If you believe what I believe, you have to leave the company. This is not a sustainable model for the Internet ecosystem as a whole.” News-Patiala