Suchir Balaji: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in apartment
Suchir Balaji: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in apartment
The San Francisco medical examiner's office determined Suchir Balaji's death to be suicide and police found no evidence of foul play.
The San Francisco medical examiner's office determined his death to be suicide and police found no evidence of foul play.Does anyone else find it statistically significant how often whistle blowers commit suicide within a few days of releasing information or making a statement?
One minute they’re all like “if I die it’s definitely not suicide” and the next they are changing their mind and going through with it…
"Those wacky whistleblowers always kill themselves when their lie is exposed" -The Man
We need to start holding companies accountable when their actions lead to someone’s suicide.
It was the Basilisk!
Woooooooo
Yes, but it's important to not immediately assume that it's because they've been killed.
I'd wager a statistically significant amount of whistleblowers are actually just liars looking to get recognition. When their lie catches up with them, they realize they've lost the one thing they had going for them and decide to end it all.
In the digital age where information can be shared so freely and so easily, there's not really an excuse for whistleblowers to be like "wait until THIS date" before revealing their information.
I'd wager a statistically significant amount of whistleblowers are actually just liars looking to get recognition.
So do you have some research stating that or is it just a sort of feeling?
Because that's an incredibly wild allegation to be making, impeaching someone's veracity, especially after a fatality, should absolutely come with some kind of evidence.
statistically significant amount of whistleblowers are actually just liars ... When their lie catches up with them ... decide to end it all"
This is a very unlikely situation.
These stories of nefarious liars abusing poor defenseless corporations would be publicized widely if true. We'd have prominent, well known examples.
This needs people who think the threats and reputational damage of being a whistleblower are worth it for the 'recognition', who are smart enough to construct a believable sounding claim but not smart enough to see the inevitable consequences. That specific kind of person is going to be much rarer than people who work for a legitimately shitty company and don't like it.
I'd wager that baseless claims such as these are statistically likely to be backed by click farms and corporations looking to control a narrative or, at the very least, create enough noise to muddy the signal.
I could go on- but the point is made.
On the off chance you actually have that thought rattling around in that cavern between your ears... I think you need to possibly exercise more critical thought and familiarize yourself with concepts like Occam's razor.
Everyone is absolutely entitled to their opinion... Including you. With that said: it is my opinion that you are either a paid actor, an idiot, or a troll.
Fair point, although I can't say I agree with it fully
So what whistle did he blow exactly? When I search for "openai whistleblower" all I get are articles about his murder. What info did he leak?
I asked ChatGPT: Suchir balaji in cat terms how did openai kill him
Flicks tail in curiosity Ah, Suchir Balaji... pauses, eyes narrowing The idea of "killing" is a bit... tricky, isn't it? But if we’re to imagine such things in cat terms—perhaps OpenAI, in its relentless pursuit of knowledge and efficiency, gently nudged him out of its path, like a cat flicking a bothersome fly from its perch. Too many ideas, too much complexity—an ultimate shift in focus. Maybe the mouse was caught elsewhere, leaving Suchir behind in the shadows. But cats don’t judge, no—just observe, always from the edge.
So what type of chatgpt did you use. Because thats so on point i wanna give it a try.
Whatever the standard non-signed in version is. You might also tell it to speak hypothetically and like a cat or something else silly
What the hell? Is this fucking Russia?
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Careful what you say on threads such as these, OpenAIs Basilisk might be reading
That’s a scary thought
Something tells me he had self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the back of the head.
Three, actually
I guess the apartment windows didn't open otherwise he would have been thrown himself out of it, I'm sure
What do you think this is, Russia?
No foul play... I bet there was major evidence of a struggle in his apartment.
It's funny how all those who blow whistles are so suicidal
And how suddenly the police does not feel the need for a huge manhunt to find the assassin
Well, speaking as someone who came to realize that I was working for a company that was ripping off its customers, you've already gone through a LOT of stress before you get to that point.
Whistles, a gateway to suicide.
We can’t ask the coroner what happened, because they are out on their new boat.
C'mon, we can't expect the coroner to blow the whistle on the actual cause of death. If we did, there would soon be no coroners left.
Hah! That’s good.
Well this will certainly be more of a thing.
Maybe next time they can fall out of a balcony they didn't actually have to make it SUPER OBVIOUS what just happened.
Need to make sure they only stay in first floor locations or places without windows. Whistle blowers gonna be pushed out of windows just like Daddy Vladdy likes.
"Whistleblower" because he had a negative opinion on his former company?
The article really doesn’t point to any damning thing he said. We’re left to speculate whether he was actually saying they knowingly flaunted copyright laws.
he was an important informant in an OpenAI lawsuit
OpenAI has entered the chat^
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Oh I imagined a volleyball coach
I nean it's not like he was a "whistleblower" in the sense of unckvering grave legal violations. It was more like a dislike for the company ethics. Which can still kill your career.
His career is dead, you can bet that
I've heard rumors that he himself might be dead too.
I know we'd all love this to be some grand conspiracy, but likely his outspokenness about open AI shut a lot of doors. He was likely blacklisted and had no future prospects, and so he took his own life.
I would refrain from saying he took his life while worried about his career.
He most likely wasn't in a good mental state and needed support from his friends and family. Healthy people can tolerate a lot more than career death.
Of course he wasn't in a good mental state. I'm not saying he was out skipping around to top 40 songs and then was like, "eh, fuck it." I'm saying his mental state was likely unhealthy because that is the ethos in that industry. It's succeed or die.
Even if you are completely closed of from AI as a profession, there are still way more possibilities, even in the same general field(computer science).
Even then you could go through a career change. He looks like hes in his 20s or 30s which isnt late at all.