Suchir Balaji (November 21, 1998 – November, 2024) was an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and whistleblower who accused his former employer, OpenAI, of violating United States copyright law.

Dec 21, 2024 · Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials.

Passenger Screening Algorithm Challenge - 7th place solution in the TSA/Kaggle competition. Built a distributed ML pipeline using 20+ VMs with P100 GPUs for threat detection in airport passenger scans. Some things I believe:

I'm a researcher living in San Francisco, CA. I previously was an AI researcher at OpenAI from 2020-2024, and before that did my undergrad at UC Berkeley.

Dec 22, 2024 · Suchir Balaji, a former researcher at OpenAI who openly questioned the legality of its data-gathering practices, died by suicide, authorities said.

Dec 14, 2024 · The body of Suchir Balaji, 26, was discovered on 26 November after police said they received a call asking officers to check on his wellbeing. The San Francisco medical …

Dec 22, 2024 · Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law,...

Dec 22, 2024 · Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the AI systems behind ChatGPT, has died.

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Oct 23, 2024 · Suchir Balaji helped gather and organize the enormous amounts of internet data used to train the startup’s ChatGPT chatbot.