Death of Suchir Balaji, who accused OpenAI: Body found in San Francisco, USA, police suspect suicide
San Francisco
Artificial Intelligence (AI) researcher Suchir Balaji was found dead in his apartment on November 26 in San Francisco, USA. Police suspect that 26-year-old Indo-American Suchir committed suicide. According to the Chicago Tribune, the police say that they have not found any evidence of any wrongdoing in the investigation. This case of November 26 came into discussion on December 14.
Suchir, who worked for OpenAI from November 2020 to August 2024, came into the limelight when he made many shocking revelations about the company. In an interview to the New York Times, Suchir had said that OpenAI’s business model is not stable and is very bad for the Internet ecosystem.
Suchir had alleged that the company copied online data to develop its program and violated US copyright rules. He also asked people to leave the company as soon as possible. Elon Musk has reacted to this news.
Who is Suchir Balaji?
Suchir Balaji studied computer science at the University of California Berkeley and did an internship at Scale AI at OpenAI. He was among the Berkeley graduates working for OpenAI in 2020.
According to the New York Times, Balaji started collecting data for a new project called GPT-4 in early 2022. In late 2022, he realized that the company was violating copyright law to develop its program.
Musk sued OpenAI
Let us tell you that Musk along with Altman formed OpenAI in 2015. It is an artificial intelligence (AI) research company that offers services like ChatGPT. Musk resigned from the company’s board in 2018.
Later Musk also filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and many others of the company including Sam Altman. Musk accused everyone including OpenAI-Altman of violating the contractual agreements made while helping to establish ChatGPT-maker in 2015.
Agreement broken due to focus on making profit
The law-suit filed by Musk said that Altman had approached Musk to form an open source, non-profit company along with OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman. This company develops artificial intelligence technology for the benefit of humans.
Musk’s lawyers said OpenAI’s focus on making profits broke the agreement.
