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A former OpenAI employee and whistleblower, Suchir Balaji, was recently found dead in his apartment in San Francisco, California.
The San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has identified Balaji, 26, as the deceased person, according to the San Jose Mercury News. The manner of death has been ruled suicide.
The medical examiner said it had notified Balaji’s family.
The OpenAI logo is arranged on a laptop in Beijing, China, on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. (Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“When I tried to understand the issue better, I eventually came to the conclusion that fair use seems like a pretty implausible defense for a lot of generative AI products, for the basic reason that they can create substitutes that compete with the data they’re trained on,” his post continued.
OpenAI and Microsoft are currently facing several lawsuits from media outlets who accuse OpenAI of breaking copyright law.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the medical examiner and San Francisco Police.
Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
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