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Family of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji files lawsuit seeking San Francisco police records


Balaji garnered national attention in October when he went public with accusations that his former employer, OpenAI, was flouting federal copyright laws with its blockbuster chatbot, ChatGPT.

Balaji garnered national attention in October when he told the New York Times that his former employer of four years, OpenAI, repeatedly flouted federal copyright laws by siphoning data from across the internet to train its blockbuster chatbot, ChatGPT. Nolan Higdon, a lecturer at Cal State East Bay, in Hayward, recently told this newspaper that social media posts on the subject have resembled “a fascinating baseless conspiracy, particularly because it attracts people from across the political spectrum.” The San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office made a preliminary ruling shortly after Balaji’s death that he died of suicide, though a final autopsy report has yet to be completed amid ongoing toxicology tests.

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