The 26-year-old whistleblower who accused OpenAI of infringement committed suicide. He alleged that the training of ChatGPT violated U.S. copyright law.

Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI employee who accused OpenAI of training ChatGPT to violate copyright laws in October, was confirmed today to have died in his San Francisco apartment at the end of November, and the cause of death was determined by a medical examiner to be "suicide." (Synopsis: ChatGPT was revealed to "refuse to reply to David Mayer" and other names, OpenAI is suspected of deliberately blocking information) (Background supplement: The New York Times accuses OpenAI, Microsoft of "copyright infringement": ChatGPT stole millions of news) According to CNBC, Business Insider and other foreign media reports, Suchir Balaji, a former employee of artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment at the end of November At the age of 26, the medical examiner said the cause of death had been determined to be suicide. The San Francisco Police Department said officers were called to Balaji's San Francisco apartment for a "health check" on the afternoon of November 26 and found that Balaji was dead and ruled out homicide in a preliminary investigation. It is worth noting that Balaji was widely followed by the media for publicly acting as a whistleblower in October, accusing OpenAI of collecting data from the Internet to train AI models in violation of US copyright law when building ChatGPT. Balaji left OpenAI for 4 years of OpenAI this summer and publicly questioned the former company's unethical use of online data to train its AI models and alleged violations of U.S. copyright law in his personal blog and community posts. "While generative AI models rarely produce outputs that are substantially similar to their training inputs, the process of training a generative model involves copying copyrighted material," he said in his blog post. If these copies are not authorized, this may be considered copyright infringement, depending on whether the specific use of the model qualifies as 'fair use'. Because fair use is determined on a case-by-case basis, it is not possible to make broad claims about when generative AI qualifies as 'fair use'." He also said in his last tweet on October 24 that he believes ChatGPT and other similar chatbots undermine the business value of individuals and organizations that create the digital data and content that is now widely used to train AI models. For many generative AI products, "fair use" may seem like a rather implausible defense, the root cause of which is that they can create alternatives that compete with the data on which they are trained. OpenAI whistleblower kills in apartment OpenAI faces multiple lawsuits accusing the company of copyright infringement, including newspaper and media publishers such as The New York Times and The Times, as well as multiple creators and artists. But in recent months, OpenAI has signed commercial protocols with several media outlets, including Time Magazine and the Financial Times, enabling the company to use content from these publishers to train its AI models. OpenAI previously issued a statement in response to Balaji's allegations, saying: "We use publicly available data to build AI models, which are also supported by long-standing and widely accepted legal precedents in a manner protected by fair use and related principles." We believe this principle is fair to creators, necessary to innovators, and critical to American competitiveness." After learning of Balaji's passing, an OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement: "We are deeply saddened to learn this incredibly sad news today, and our hearts are with Suchir's loved ones at this difficult time." For now, the reason why Balaji committed suicide remains a mystery, but one point that has caused media follow-up is that in a legal document dated November 18, Balaji was designated as a "custodian" or an individual in possession of documents related to the case in the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI. Balaji's sudden death has also sparked some conspiracy theories in the community. Related reports OpenAI video generation tool Sola is officially launched! 5 major feature highlights, subscription solutions to see at once OpenAI publishes Day2" against the sky "reinforcement learning fine-tuning" new function to enhance the learning accuracy of AI professional field OpenAI publishes full blood version of o1 model and new subscription scheme ChatGPT Pro, is the monthly fee of $200 worth it? OpenAI was collectively sued: ChatGPT will steal private information, global copyright loss of 3 billion magnesium [26-year-old whistleblower who broke the news of OpenAI infringement committed suicide, accused ChatGPT training of violating US copyright law] This article was first published in BlockTempo's "Dynamic Trend - The Most Influential Block Chain News Media".