“If you believe what I believe, you have to just leave the company,” Balaji told the New York Times in an article published before his death. / Person photo: Suchir Balaji/LinkedInin his apartment in San Francisco on November 26, barely a few weeks after publicly accusing his then-employer OpenAI of unethical business practices.
I recently participated in a NYT story about fair use and generative AI, and why I'm skeptical "fair use" would be a plausible defense for a lot of generative AI products. I also wrote a blog post (the AI giant of copyright infringement in an article published by the New York Times, where he said the company used copyrighted data to train its AI model.
The “fair use” doctrine in the US requires that the use of copyrighted material must meet certain criteria, including whether the purpose of the use is transformative or it effects the use on the potential market value of the original work. About two months before his death, Balaji penned an analysis for ChatGPT’s use of its training data to prove this claim, publishing it