"AI’s dark side": OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji’s final post on AI and copyright goes viral after his sudden death

The tragic passing away of Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher, has brought attention back to his vocal concerns about the ethical implications of generative AI. Balaji, a key architect of ChatGPT, had become an outspoken critic of the industry’s reliance on "fair use" for using copyrighted material in AI training, warning that this could have far-reaching consequences for content creators and intellectual property law.