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[–] pagenotfound@lemmy.world 69 points 4 days ago

We’re truly in a dystopian future when big tech nerds are doing mafia hits. Reminds me of that guy in Better Call Saul that hired Mike as a bodyguard.

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Police say it appears to be a suicide. Probably true, honestly, but that doesn't mean he wasn't driven to it.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 31 points 4 days ago

I wouldn't believe the cops without some evidence either way.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 10 points 4 days ago

That's even worse!

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

“He blew the whistle on a multibillion dollar company - obviously he knew they’d kill him! Suicide.”

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Police say it appears to be a suicide.

Let me guess: it was less than 30 stabs that they found in his back?

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

When the working class kills a CEO, there's a reward by the FBI and is found in a week. When a company does it, the world is silent.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Whistleblower deaths should have all of a company's director's investigated by default. It may be that 99% are innocent, but just one or two seeing their massively valuable stock, and options in danger, may be driven to such actions on their own.

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The police are too busy shooting people's pets and being scared of acorns to investigate something like this.

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 days ago

Oh and shooting people for avoid the 3.50 New York subway fare.....

[–] macattack@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

RIP. Hope that his whistleblowing doesn't end up falling on deaf ears

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 3 days ago

There are 11 others involved in the case.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 days ago (4 children)
[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago

I didn't even read the article. I just barely skimmed it and guess what I found within 2 seconds.

"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."

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

He had hard proof chat gpt used copyright work to train. Opening them up to lawsuits of said copyright holders and basically collapsing the whole company.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You don’t even need “Hard” proof. The mere fact that ChatGPT “knows” about certain things indicate that it ingested certain copyrighted works. There are countless examples. Can it quote a book you like? Does it know the plot details? There is no other way for it to get certain information about such things.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

The issue is proving that it ingested the original copyrighted work, and not some hypothetical public copyleft essay.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

It was more of an opinion piece. They were already being sued and he didn't bring any new info forward from what I understand.

[–] GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

His AI GF must've convinced him to shoot himself in the back of the head with a shotgun twice.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Twice is better. Reliable.

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

If Zombieland taught us anything, it's the double-tap.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Obviously suicide because it happened at his house/apartment. Because who else would suicide him self in his apartment right? I wouldn't go trying to figure out how it happened. Like with finger printing surfaces or sniffing dogs or checking cameras. Why would sniffing a dog even help?