The medical examiner’s office determined the manner of death to be suicide and police officials this week said there is “currently, no evidence of foul play.”
Information he held was expected to play a key part in lawsuits against the San Francisco-based company.
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.
Seems like you stood to lose more money paying someone to do a harrassment campaign or an assassin on the person as compared to if you just let them whistleblow. I have never seen someone seriously contest the idea that they're using copyrighted material.