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Soon after blowing the whistle on OpenAI's alleged use of copyrighted material in its training data, one of its former researchers was found dead of an apparent suicide., a spokesperson for the firm said that OpenAI was "devastated" to hear of the untimely passing of its former employee Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old who died in his San Francisco apartment in recent weeks.
"I thought that AI was a thing that could be used to solve unsolvable problems, like curing diseases and stopping aging," he told theAfter matriculating at UC Berkeley, the young man became one of the lucky grads at his alma mater who got the chance to work at OpenAI in 2020. A few years in, he began working to train the still-unreleased GPT-4 large language model .
Although the material he was feeding into it was copyrighted, he and his colleagues thought of it more as a "research project" despite the company's for-profit status — an assessment he later came to believe wasn't right.. He left OpenAI this August because, as he said, "If you believe what I believe, you have to just leave the company."
It's impossible to know what was going on in Balaji's mind when he died. Nevertheless, his death casts a pall over the firm, which has
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