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OpenAI Whistleblower Found Dead in San Francisco Apartment in Apparent Suicide

Suchir Balaji, a former employee of OpenAI, has been found dead in his San Francisco apartment in an apparent suicide. Balaji went public with allegations that OpenAI unethically used data to train its artificial intelligence platform. He claimed to have helped the company use large amounts of data from the internet to train ChatGPT without permission. Balaji also accused OpenAI of creating its own transcription software to harvest data from YouTube. The New York Times sued OpenAI for copyright infringement last year, to which the company's CEO, Sam Altman, defended his company's actions and accused the newspaper of being on the wrong side of history. Balaji's death has been confirmed as a suicide by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

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