OpenAI Whistleblower Suchir Balaji Family Refutes Final Autopsy Report

Days aft San Francisco Police closed the transgression probe record regarding the decease of erstwhile OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji by releasing last autopsy study and terming it arsenic “suicide”, the household of Balaji has rejected the report, calling for a caller probe.

On February 15, the San Francisco constabulary submitted an autopsy study on with a missive to the household of 26-year-old Suchir Balaji, who was recovered dormant successful his flat successful November past year. Suchir was a erstwhile researcher with OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, who had discontinue the institution successful aboriginal 2024 and turned into a whistleblower complaining astir OpenAI violating copyright laws of artists and creators.

According to constabulary officials, the nonstop origin of decease successful the autopsy study showed arsenic “self inflicted gunshot wound”. According to Hindustan Times, the San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott, wrote a missive to Balaji’s parents stating “there is insufficient grounds to find Mr. Balaji’s decease was the effect of homicide.” However, Balaji’s parents person demanded an FBI probe into the case.

On Tuesday, Suchir’s parent Poornima Rao powerfully objected to the last autopsy study submitted by San Francisco Police and claimed that it has respective loopholes.

“We received the autopsy study past Friday. Our counsel and we disagree with their decision. There are tons of inconsistencies successful their decision. Underlying assumptions are not supporting the facts successful reports. We proceed our investigation. We person sent the hairsbreadth recovered successful the flat for testing. We are warring for justness and not backmost up,” said Rao, parent of Suchir Balaji, successful her X post.

Suchir Balaji had turned into a whistleblower against the policies of OpenAI and openly criticized the “fair use” argumentation of the institution wherever they could usage archetypal enactment of artists, journalists and different contented creators to bid their AI models. While the San Francisco Police mightiness person closed their probe into the case, the contention refused to dice down.

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