A 26-year-old OpenAI whistleblower named Suchir Balaji had sounded the alarm on the company’s allegedly illegal copyright practices before his death. Balaji worked at OpenAI for four years, but quit after becoming disillusioned with the company’s data scraping efforts. He was being considered as a potential witness in a high-profile lawsuit filed by The New York Times against OpenAI, alleging that the company had used the newspaper’s copyrighted work to train its chatbots.
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