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The Mercury News

OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

A former OpenAI researcher who raised concerns about the company is dead at 26.

"Balaji’s death comes three months after he publicly accused OpenAI of violating U.S. copyright law while developing ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence program that has become a moneymaking sensation used by hundreds of millions of people across the world.

Its public release in late 2022 spurred a torrent of lawsuits against OpenAI from authors, computer programmers and journalists, who say the company illegally stole their copyrighted material to train its program and elevate its value past $150 billion.

The Mercury News and seven sister news outlets are among several newspapers, including the New York Times, to sue OpenAI in the past year.

In an interview with the New York Times published Oct. 23, Balaji argued OpenAI was harming businesses and entrepreneurs whose data were used to train ChatGPT.

“If you believe what I believe, you have to just leave the company,” he told the outlet, adding that “this is not a sustainable model for the internet ecosystem as a whole.”

Balaji grew up in Cupertino before attending UC Berkeley to study computer science. It was then he became a believer in the potential benefits that artificial intelligence could offer society, including its ability to cure diseases and stop aging, the Times reported. “I thought we could invent some kind of scientist that could help solve them,” he told the newspaper.

But his outlook began to sour in 2022, two years after joining OpenAI as a researcher. He grew particularly concerned about his assignment of gathering data from the internet for the company’s GPT-4 program, which analyzed text from nearly the entire internet to train its artificial intelligence program, the news outlet reported.

The practice, he told the Times, ran afoul of the country’s “fair use” laws governing how people can use previously published work. In late October, he posted an analysis on his personal website arguing that point.

No known factors “seem to weigh in favor of ChatGPT being a fair use of its training data,” Balaji wrote. “That being said, none of the arguments here are fundamentally specific to ChatGPT either, and similar arguments could be made for many generative AI products in a wide variety of domains.”

Reached by this news agency, Balaji’s mother requested privacy while grieving the death of her son.

In a Nov. 18 letter filed in federal court, attorneys for The New York Times named Balaji as someone who had “unique and relevant documents” that would support their case against OpenAI. He was among at least 12 people — many of them past or present OpenAI employees — the newspaper had named in court filings as having material helpful to their case, ahead of depositions."

I got the dumbest idea, Death and Sly cosplaying as one another (still a yucky early WIP dunno if I'll ever finish it)

some animated icons i did for ArtFight

terrible website feature that came to me in a dream

i have no object permanence about myself. if i’m not in anyones eye sight i assume i have ceased to be. finding out people remember i exist, think about me, and even talk about me when i’m not actively in front of them is startling news every time it is brought to my attention

so, possibly controversial opinion ahead, going off that post a few reblogs ago.

if someone feels it’s appropriate and fitting to call their ADHD – or honestly, any condition – a disability, people have no business denying them that right. 

and i mean that without any exception.

gatekeeping someone’s experience by hemming and hawing about how they shouldn’t use the term, because of some specific line you’ve drawn between disabled and abled, is absolutely fucking ridiculous.

adhd, for all ignoring people downplay it, can be extremely fucking destructive to one’s life if not treated properly. impulsivity, executive dysfunction, inability to focus, etcetera: these things can literally crumble someone’s ability to live the way they desire. hence, in my opinion, it can be disabling.

it is one of the most classic forms of ableism: downplaying and doubting. and it’s ridiculous that it’s accepted on such a mass scale, even on this website. 

what benefit does one reap from guarding the term so obsessively? what benefit does it have to our community? what fucking benefit does it have to the individual you’re bombarding with your shit?

enough of the bullshit. focus on building community instead of destroying it.

XOXO, someone with chronic pain.

POKUSAVAN BI NA NJEMU VISE OKEJJ SDFOIHDFSIODFIS samo zaboravljan da ista postoji samo skapavan i onda se sitin ka.... a da internet je stvaran iden iskaka moje crteze tamo HFDSHIODFO

JOS UVIK GA NEZNAN KORISTI SORRAYY

some random commishies i did at random points in time LMAO

I hate hbo max. I hate Disney +. I hate Amazon prime. I hate streaming platforms that treat their staff and creators like donkey shit. I hate that they don’t compensate for rewatches or popularity and can’t even take out the fucking commercials. I hate our monthly fees for media that can just be put in the vault and written off as if it never existed. I hate our reliance on mega corporations for our daily serotonin. I want weekly shows where I can theorize with my friends. I want dvds to be popular again. I want no commercials and for my favorite creators to be paid to imagine a better world than this.

A Family's Unending Journey for Safety in Gaza

My name is Mohammed, and I’m 35 years old, working as a nurse in a hospital here in Gaza. My wife, Diana, is 27, and together we’re trying to give our two young daughters a safe, stable life in a place that knows so little of either.

Our journey began in December 2023. That was when the military ordered us to evacuate our home in Al-Nuseirat. With only minutes to decide, we grabbed what we could carry, took our little girls, and moved to Khan Yunis, hoping it would be safer.

But our time there was short. We were ordered to leave Khan Yunis, so we packed up again and moved to Rafah. For a moment, we let ourselves hope that this would be the end of our running, that maybe we could start to rebuild. But Rafah wasn't safe either. Another order came, and we had no choice but to return to Al-Nuseirat, despite the dangers.

Today, we're renting a small apartment in Al-Nuseirat. It barely fits us, but it's the only place we can go. We live every day in fear, wondering if the next evacuation order will come. Each move takes away a bit more of the stability we try so hard to create for our girls. Every time we’re forced to flee, it feels like we leave behind pieces of the life we’ve worked to build.

There’s little left to hold on to but each other, and the hope that maybe one day we’ll finally find safety.

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We are a family against whom war has devastated us from all directions. I ask you to stand by us and help us so that we can protect ourselves and restore our lives. Look how our life was before

Now how has our life become