Suchir Balaji, a former researcher at OpenAI who openly questioned the legality of its data-gathering practices, died by suicide, authorities said.

Suchir Balaji's death raises questions about his potential testimony in OpenAI's copyright infringement cases.

Before the whistleblower died, he accused OpenAI of violating US copyright law with its generative AI app, ChatGPT.

Suchir Balaji's death shocks the tech world as he leaves behind a trail of unresolved debates on AI's ethical and legal boundaries.

Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old former OpenAI researcher, was found dead in his apartment last month. Mr Balaji's death was ruled a suicide, according to the San Francisco Police.

Suchir Balaji was found dead in a suspected suicide shortly after openly criticising OpenAI. Let's explore his life and career.

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Balaji, who left OpenAI in October 2023, accused OpenAI of training its AI models on copyrighted material scraped from the internet without authorization. He argued that this practice could lead to copyright infringement, even if generative models do not directly replicate the training data.

OpenAI whistleblower found dead at home aged 26 - Suchir Balaji, who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law,

OpenAI founder John Schulman in a social media post memorialising Balaji described the Indian-origin engineer as someone whose "contributions to this project were essential," and said that ChatGPT "wo