San Francisco: An Indian engineer working for OpenAI died. AI engineer Suchir Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on November 26. However, his death occurred under suspicious circumstances. Before his death, he had made many shocking allegations against OpenAI and ChatGPT. American police have declared it a suicide. However, Balaji’s mother Purnima Rama Rao has claimed irregularities in the investigation. He said that we got the body examined by a private investigator. The police claim was not confirmed in this. Veteran billionaire Elon Musk has also come out in support of Rama Rao.
Balaji’s mother has written on X, ‘We got the investigation done with the help of a private investigator. The cause of death given by the police in the autopsy of the body has not been confirmed. Elon Musk’s response has come on his tweet. He said, ‘It does not look like suicide.’ Purnima Rama Rao re-tweeted this and requested Musk for help. Responding to the post, he said, ‘Elon Musk please help us..’
What happened in the room?
Purnima Rama Rao wrote in her note, ‘Suchir’s apartment was ransacked, marks of struggle were found in the bathroom and based on blood stains, it seems that someone had killed him in the bathroom. It is a brutal murder, which police officials have declared a suicide. We cannot be prevented from getting justice by lobbying the city of San Francisco. We demand an FBI investigation.
Direct mess with OpenAI-ChatGPT
Suchir Balaji used to train AI models in OpenAI. However, there were many concerns about the rules and ethics of the company. He resigned in August this year, unhappy with the company’s way of handling data. After this, he scolded AI companies for playing with people’s data and internet technology. In his interview in the New York Times, he had accused OpenAI of using copyrighted data. At the same time, he had said that ChatGPT is causing a lot of harm to the Internet.
father’s pain surged
Suchir’s father Balagi Ramamurthy said, ‘He was the last person I spoke to. He was happy, sad or nothing. And this was his birthday week. His mother and I had planned for Suchir to meet us in January. That was his last phone conversation with anyone. He went to his apartment and never came out. We saw blood stains in the bathroom, signs of a fight in the bathroom.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: December 30, 2024, 11:08 IST
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